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by: waynel
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
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Mar 16, 2007 6:20 PM
in response to: bhuot
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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Forgot to mention
there are x86 and SPARC versions
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
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Mar 17, 2007 2:39 PM
in response to: bhuot
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That's great! Now all we need is Adobe Reader for x86 Solaris and we have the full set!
Cheers
Andrew.
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
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Mar 17, 2007 5:02 PM
in response to: pattison
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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> That's great! Now all we need is Adobe Reader for x86
> Solaris and we have the full set!
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> Cheers
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> Andrew.
Someone should sue Adobe for anticompetitive monopolistic behavior.
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 19, 2007 8:47 AM
in response to: dev
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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> Someone should sue Adobe for anticompetitive
> monopolistic behavior.
That won't get their cooperation unless it wins.
While I'm not a lawyer, I don't see how it could.
Tell Adobe how they'll make money off of you
for doing what you want, or just find some
other alternative. Those who have lots of disk
space, probably set up an LX zone and display
back, which with shared home directories and
a wrapper on the Solaris side using ssh with X
forwarding, probably wouldn't be too bad (except
no browser plugin capability that way unless you display
back an entire browser, which might not work so well
for other things, like anything with audio or video).
I wonder whether their getting Flash current on Solaris
(both platforms) is a hopeful sign, or if the Flash
and Acrobat Reader folks are marching to different
drummers.
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 19, 2007 10:04 AM
in response to: rlhamil
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Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> I wonder whether their getting Flash current on Solaris
> (both platforms) is a hopeful sign, or if the Flash
> and Acrobat Reader folks are marching to different
> drummers.
Sun's deal for Flash was with Macromedia, before the Adobe
merger, so I don't think it can be read as any sign of change
from the Adobe side.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan dot coopersmith at sun dot com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 20, 2007 1:33 PM
in response to: alanc
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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alanc revealed:
> Sun's deal for Flash was with Macromedia, before the
> Adobe
> merger, so I don't think it can be read as any sign
> of change
> from the Adobe side.
Ah, didn't realise that. I'm guessing a large wad of cash changed hands. Here's me thinking they realised Solaris was *the* up-and-coming open-source OS.
Cheers
Andrew.
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 18, 2007 1:04 AM
in response to: bhuot
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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> There is a beta of Flash Player 9 for Solaris at
> Adobe Labs
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> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
I have been able to install flashplayer9 into Builds 55b/56 (I am waiting for Build 62)) and 10u3. This is a very painless process; all you need to do is move the existing libflashplayer.so to a backup file (say libflashplayer.so.7) then copy the extracted libflashplayer.so into the same directory. Re-start firefox. Done.
With regard to the suggestion to "sue Adobe" mentioned in the subsequent post, we need to realize that as late as one year ago, or even only six months ago, no person of reasonable mind would consider desktop Solaris is anything other than an oxymoron. Now, of course, things have changed to everyone's wildest surprise. But if no one files bug reports, or if the number of downloads is disappointing, we will be assured that Flashplayer 9 will stay at the beta level. & there goes the conspiracy theory.
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Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
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Mar 19, 2007 8:49 AM
in response to: waynel
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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Well, I downloaded Flash Player 9 for SPARC, but my laptop's dead,
so I couldn't try the x86 version. But that's a good point I suppose;
if they get lots of downloads (both please, don't want to see them
drop SPARC in favor of x86!), they just might take notice.
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 20, 2007 4:57 AM
in response to: waynel
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On 18/03/07, W. Wayne Liauh <wp at hawaiilinux dot us> wrote:
> > There is a beta of Flash Player 9 for Solaris at
> > Adobe Labs
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> > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
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> I have been able to install flashplayer9 into Builds 55b/56 (I am waiting for Build 62)) and 10u3. This is a very painless process; all you need to do is move the existing libflashplayer.so to a backup file (say libflashplayer.so.7) then copy the extracted libflashplayer.so into the same directory. Re-start firefox. Done.
>
Seems to work great for me on S10U3 as well...
Except I just copied to ~/.mozilla/plugins/
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail dot com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
Mar 20, 2007 9:36 AM
in response to: swalker
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> Seems to work great for me
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> Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
> binarycrusader at gmail dot com -
> http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
Same here, except I still couldn't watch the video on Fox News (Yeah, yeah, I know I know, being a life-long you-know-what--GW & I used to lick stamps together when the Senior was running for president--this is the main channel I watch; idiots have their right. Right?)
For me, the fact that Adobe is interested in porting the most current version of flashplayer into Solaris is taken as a major milestone.
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
May 1, 2007 6:07 PM
in response to: swalker
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
Cc: OpenSolaris » help
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Hi,
Would you please tell me how you did it? I've been trying to copy the file manually, but there is no firefox/plugins directory on my system, at least I can't find it. I'm using Solaris Express Community Edition. I'm used to Linux, but seem that Solaris is very different.
On what directory is firefox located?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9
Posted:
May 1, 2007 7:08 PM
in response to: majorero
To: OpenSolaris » discuss
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> Hi,
> Would you please tell me how you did it? I've been
> trying to copy the file manually, but there is no
> firefox/plugins directory on my system, at least I
> can't find it. I'm using Solaris Express Community
> Edition. I'm used to Linux, but seem that Solaris is
> very different.
> On what directory is firefox located?
> Thanks in advance.
For system-wide installation, the name of the folder in which the two files, flashplayer.xpt & libflashplayer.so are to be copied to, is (even Linux distros differ among themselves, but I think Solaris Express follows the published standard):
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
For individual user, the folder is:
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/plugins
This sub-holder does not exist, you must first create it yourself.
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