Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hi all, > > Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup > installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare > you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2. > > The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when > you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain: > > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path. > > This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components, > which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can: > > 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy. > > or > > 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.) > >
I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and it was happy. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
