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I've now got Ocelot running(somewhat) on a toshiba A30 laptop,
and I'm trying to watch BBC news clips.
It tells me to download the correct version of FP.
Clicked on the link, downloaded and saved the .tar.gz version, but now stuck, as I can't remember what to do next.
Perhaps it would have been better to use terminal, but I'm struggling with the new layout of Ocelot ( is this "Unity" that I see referred to ?).
Sense that I'm beginning to ramble on, so guidance appreciated.
John
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Extract your download and copy libflashpayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and restart your browser if you had it open.
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It's better to use the repository version of Flash. More likely to work with more stability, in my experience.
I know the Flash player is included in ubuntu-restricted-extras.
Because I am not on my Ubuntu computer, I can't look for the file that contains only the flash player, but if there is one, you'll find it with:
Code:apt-cache search flash
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Do I need to change the permission to "Allow executing" in order to get it to copy across ?Originally Posted by howefield
I'd extracted to Desktop.
Last edited by grey1beard; January 12th, 2012 at 07:30 PM.
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Now it's frozen so I've rebooted, again.
This time it's not responding to the mouse correctly.
It will open windows from the icons on the left of the screen, but not anything else - wont select anything in the window, nor close the windows, so I'll just have to crash the system, again.
EDIT
Not sure what I did, but I tried the super key(?) and enter, and it started to respond again.
For how long, though ?
Last edited by grey1beard; January 12th, 2012 at 07:48 PM.
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Ultimate Coffee Grinder
Easiest way would be to open a terminal and issue the following commands..
Code:cd DesktopThis will allow all accounts on your machine to access the flash player.Code:sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
If you only have the one account on the machine you can install into /home folder. I think it would be .mozilla/plugins
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Thanks howefield.
The last attempt to reboot has it frozen at the spash screen, so I'm trying again.
The system at this moment seems to be completely unstable, so by late tonight I might make a decision to revert to 10.10 !
EDIT
Thanks again. At least I've now got Flash Player working
Regards
John
Last edited by grey1beard; January 12th, 2012 at 08:35 PM.
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