I installed Chrome (for Linux) a while ago and am still playing with it but wish to install flash. I've found where it is installed already (and saved the relevant bit of text to copy) but it needs to go into another directory as far as I can tell. Do I do this from Terminal? And how? TIA.
Bev.
Hi Bev.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
I installed Chrome (for Linux) a while ago and am still playing with it but wish to install flash. I've found where it is installed already (and saved the relevant bit of text to copy) but it needs to go into another directory as far as I can tell. Do I do this from Terminal? And how? TIA.
That is weird, because I just have the standard flash installed and Chrome picked it up from the default directory for flash. Do you have flash installed ? what distro you using ?
Ian
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Bev.
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Yeah mine is fine also, I just installed Chrome and flash from the adobe website.
<sigh> I meant Ubuntu.
Bev.
On 2 February 2010 14:51, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Unbuntu [Hardy Heron] .
At Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:52:01 +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
<sigh> I meant Ubuntu.
Bev.
On 2 February 2010 14:51, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Unbuntu [Hardy Heron] .
Google returns ~107,000 hits for "unbuntu" and I'm quite disappointed to find that (glancing over the first 50 or so) they seem *all* to be typos. I'm really surprised that no one's used the term "unbuntu" on purpose. A hard-to-use free software operating system? An easy-to-use proprietary software operating system? A dumping ground for people who don't like Ubuntu? A list of Ubuntu vulnerabilities? The possibilities are endless.
Weird, how did you install chrome ? From a deb rep ? Or from a tar ball ?
Regards Ian Porter
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On 2 Feb 2010, at 14:52, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
<sigh> I meant Ubuntu.
Bev.
On 2 February 2010 14:51, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Unbuntu [Hardy Heron] .
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Bev Nicolson wrote:
I installed Chrome (for Linux) a while ago and am still playing with it but wish to install flash. I've found where it is installed already (and saved the relevant bit of text to copy) but it needs to go into another directory as far as I can tell. Do I do this from Terminal? And how? TIA.
If it isn't picking up the default location then you can create a plugins directory in /opt/google/chrome and put the libflashplayer.so file in there.
Then it should work
so sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins then sudo cp wherever/thefileis/now/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
Thanks Wayne.
Bev
If it isn't picking up the default location then you can create a plugins directory in /opt/google/chrome and put the libflashplayer.so file in there.
Then it should work
so sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins then sudo cp wherever/thefileis/now/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
Nope. Not solved yet. I've created the new directory etc but it says 'permission denied' when I try copying it to the new directory. How do I get round that?
Bev.
If it isn't picking up the default location then you can create a plugins directory in /opt/google/chrome and put the libflashplayer.so file in there.
Then it should work
so sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins then sudo cp wherever/thefileis/now/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
Hi Bev,
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Bev Nicolson lumos60@googlemail.com wrote:
Nope. Not solved yet. I've created the new directory etc but it says 'permission denied' when I try copying it to the new directory. How do I get round that?
if you are not copying the file as root, then it may/would say that 'permission denied'.
you are putting the sudo before the cp ?
Ian
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Bev.
If it isn't picking up the default location then you can create a plugins directory in /opt/google/chrome and put the libflashplayer.so file in there.
Then it should work
so sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins then sudo cp wherever/thefileis/now/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
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Got it. I started again at the copy line and it specifically asked for my sudo password. I have now tested it with a you tube clip and it's fine.
Bev.
if you are not copying the file as root, then it may/would say that 'permission denied'.
you are putting the sudo before the cp ?
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