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This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, |
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especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in |
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mirror<g>). |
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Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html |
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To find out where to install, go to "about:plugins" in Firefox, and see |
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where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed. In my |
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case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so |
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To install... |
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* for 64-bit version download the file http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz |
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* for 32-bit version download the file http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz |
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* exit Firefox |
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* mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a |
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backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you |
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* extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the |
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directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from. |
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* fire up Firefox, and away you go |
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* note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to manually |
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remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so |
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Good news |
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It works for me, so far. I've tried live365.com, both via my paid |
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account and via the free (with commercials) option. It works. So does |
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Youtube. |
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Bad news |
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It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos. The old |
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version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a |
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filename beginning with "Flash". It would get wiped each time you |
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played a new video/whatever. But you could always move it out to |
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another place before playing the next video. Rename the file to |
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<something>.flv and mplayer plays it beautifully. Nice way to build up |
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a collection. |
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The new version dumps it in the "Cache" directory of whatever Firefox |
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profile I'm using. You have to cd to the "Cache" subdirectory, and |
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execute... |
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file * | grep Macro |
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and you'll get a list of all "Macromedia Flash" files in the directory. |
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One of them is the most recent Flash file you played on Youtube. You |
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have to do some digging. Again, copy it to another file elsewhere to |
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keep a copy. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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