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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

flash+firefox

How can I install the flash player for firefox?
How can I install the shckwave, mplayer, jre plugins ?
Than you !!!

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: flash+firefox

pacman -Sy flashplugin mplayer-plugin j2re

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

I get internet through a proxy server, and I can only browse with firefox(because I specify the proxy). Even if use export http_proxy=......, in a console I can't use internet.
So, if you know how to do this manually, please  .
Thank you for your reply !!!

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: flash+firefox

download the files over ftp ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/
save them locally and then install them with pacman -U pkgname-version-rev.pkg.tar.gz

maybe you will need also other pkgs as dependences - depending what you all have installed on your system

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dp

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Re: flash+firefox

or maybe proxy works, if you use wget in pacman:

add to /etc/pacman.conf

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -c %u

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

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Re: flash+firefox

I can't use links to browse the web. The proxy does not work. tracepath stops at owr network's gateway.
This  is my touble.

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

where do I specify   XferCommand  in pacman.conf ?
If I put it on the last line, pacaman gives an error and point to this line in pacman.conf

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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: flash+firefox

Maybe you should upgrade pacman first (only the newer versions include XferCommand support. Try wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/pacman- … pkg.tar.gz
Then pacman -U pacman-2.7.9-1.pkg.tar.gz, and then look at the /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew. It should have the XferCommand line commented. Just uncomment it.

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

Thank you, that was the problem!!!!
Thank you very much!!!

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

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Re: flash+firefox

does it work now?

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

pacman yes, but I upgraded my system so I have an linXinerama problem which I hope to ifix very soon.
I don't see a reason why it shold not work.

Thank you very much!!!!

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

that worked perfectly, Thank you !!!

Is there a shockwave player for linux ?

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murkus

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From: Europe/Helsinki

Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 254

Re: flash+firefox

that worked perfectly, Thank you !!!

Is there a shockwave player for linux ?

in short, no.

People could go to macromedia site and request that they port it. May be tough luck though..

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onami

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From: Romania

Registered: 2004-05-05

Posts: 197

Re: flash+firefox

I found a petition asking for shockwave

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