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taboca / TelaSocial

Social Dashboard Browser Player for Television Panels - Linux based, Gecko-based
www.telasocial.com
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Technical documentation on how to install Flash plugin manual installation #15

Closed taboca closed 12 years ago

taboca commented 12 years ago

There are cases of folks interested in using Flash and they understand the licenses and implications but they need the technical documentation.

taboca commented 12 years ago

Manual Flash Plugin Installation

If you have rights and understand the use of flash plugin terms in your installation of TelaSocial, go ahead and it's all at your own risk and responsibility to start using the flash or any other plugin binary with the TelaSocial XULRunner-based code. The installation of the flash plugin is the same to any XULRunner application, so the following is an installation step for Flash plugin in Linux for a XULRunner app, in this case TelaSocial:

Install TelaSocial

Follow steps here 

git clone git://github.com/taboca/TelaSocial.git
cd builder 
0_setup.sh

Edit the index.html file to be a page to test flash: 

<html>
<body>
<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Run the 1_build-installer.sh script

cd installer

Run the installation script.

Initial Fail Test

Make sure the adobe page shows but the flash animation fails 

/usr/lib/taboca/telasocial

Manual installation of the plugin

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=ISMRZ
tar -xzvf filename_of_downloaded_flash_player.tar.gz 
cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/taboca/xulrunner/plugins

Test

Make sure the adobe page shows but the flash animation plays 

/usr/lib/taboca/telasocial