libflashplayer: PuppyLinux

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Adobe Flash Player for Linux

Flash video streaming and apps.

Installation

Flash Player is available in the PPM Puppy Package Manager, or use alternative installation method:

Manual installation of libflashplayer.so

download the .tar.gz file

decompress it to extract its content:

tar xfv install_flash_player*.tar.gz

replace any existing file at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

re-start the Web browser

Packages

flashplayer-11.2r202.pet

Dependencies: +bzip2,+cairo,+fontconfig,+freetype,+glib,+libnspr4,+libnss3,+libnssutil3,

+pango,+pcre,+pixman,+libplc4,+libplds4,+libsmime3,+libssl3

ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Usage

For full functionality ensure that the Web browser's JavaScriptEnable JavaScript setting is enabled

Version

Verify installed version (requires javascriptenable javascript enabled)

Flash and Linux

NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2MDc

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/adobe-abandons-linux/10418

Also on the Wiki

FlashExtractor - view and manipulate Flash files

Gnash - Alternative Flash Player

Related Webpages

http://lwn.net/Articles/346389/

http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=Adobe+Flash+Player

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