Directory for libflashplayer.so

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I have Ubuntu 9.04, Adobe Flash plugin is installed through
flashplugin-nonfree package and I use Icecat. In order to make the plugin
work I had to copy libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (from
/usr/lib/icecat-3.5.3/plugin). Is there any way to avoid this?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ciz...@hotmail.it on 14 Sep 2009 at 11:04

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We have installed Adobe Flash Player with the link posted in [InstallationGuide
Installation Guide]. Maybe it works this way. Tell us if it really worked.

I have also tried installing Adobe Flash plugin through flashplugin-nonfree 
package
and it worked to me. I am using Mozilla.

Original comment by Laurenti...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2009 at 5:47

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I've downloaded .deb package and .tar.gz archive provided on Adobe site. Deb 
package
didn't work at all; libflashplayer.so, present in tar.gz archive, works only in
~/.mozilla/plugins/ (but not in ~/.gnuzilla/plugins/, i.e. plugins directory 
for Icecat).

I would prefer to use flashplugin-nonfree, however it is not a great problem to 
copy
libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Original comment by ciz...@hotmail.it on 14 Sep 2009 at 8:16

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Although I didn't reproduce the problem, I think this is because you don't have 
any
popular browser installed on your system. When you install the 
flashplugin-nonfree
package, it will create the file 
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so,
but it won't create any link in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory (it seems 
WebKitGtk
will search in this directory, but not in the directory for Icecat).

I don't see an elegant solution to solve this because it actually doesn't 
depends on
our plugin. But thanks for reporting it!

Original comment by stefan.i...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2009 at 9:45

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Original comment by stefan.i...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 12:50

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