[K12OSN] Flash plug-in

[Angus Carr]

Eric Harrison wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Brandon Kovach wrote:
>
>>
>> I am having trouble installing the Firefox flash plug-in.  We have K12 V
>> 4.2.0, although it updates via yum every night.  I can get it to install
>> for a single user, but not for the whole lot of them.
>>
>> Any help?
>>
>> BK
>>
>
> Did you try to manually download and install the flash plugin?
>
> Try logging in as root, clicking on the "Get Additional Software" icon
> on the desktop, then the "Flash" icon.
>
> Or if you are a shell junky such as myself, open up a terminal, "su root"
> and run /usr/sbin/get.flash  ;-)
>
> -Eric
>
Another slightly sillier option is to install wine, then install Windows 
Firefox, then install flash and shockwave from there. That's how I got 
the games at lego.com working for my 7-yr-old. It's a bit of a hike 
around the problem, but it worked, and I got shockwave running on my 
64-bit Linux box. OK, so I had to kludge something together, and the 
rpm's for wine don't give you DNS access, so you have to compile wine 
yourself, and it's a bit of a pain, but now he can play Dino-attack, and 
that was worth it. Wasn't it?

Angus.