Add new comment

Flash Player 8.5 Linux (Ubuntu Dapper Drake)

Submitted by mariuz (Contact Author) (Forums) on Thu, 2006-05-04 17:30. :: Ubuntu

It was tested on Dapper Drake beta 2 (on x86 - 32 bit machine)

1.install wine

sudo apt-get install wine


2. install msttcorefonts (optional)

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts



3. Download firefox version for windows (yes you heard it well - Thank you macromedia)

wget
http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.3/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5.0.3.exe


run the setup

wine Firefox\ Setup\ 1.5.0.3.exe



4.Download the macromedia flash 8.5 setup

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/fp8-5_beta/install_flash_player_8-5_beta.exe



Start the setup with wine

wine install_flash_player_8-5_beta.exe



point the plugins directory to c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

5.start firefox with

wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe



write about:plugins in the Url bar


Copyright (c) 2006 Marius Popa Adrian (aka Mariuz aka Jimi Kompot)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the content of
this page under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
28 comments | view as pdf view as pdf | Display a printer-friendly version of this page. print |
Please do not use the comment function to ask for help! If you need help, please use our forum.
Comments will be published after administrator approval.

Reply

*
*
The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.


*

  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <div>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
More information about formatting options