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can't access seamonkey plugin folder

Asked by Daniel

I'm having trouble getting flash video to work in Seamonkey (or Firefox). Macromedia Flash is installed already as a plugin but doesn't work when I want to watch a video. I checked on the Ubuntu help forum and found that in order to get flash video to work in Seamonkey you have to install a Windows NPSWF32.dll file in the Seamonkey plugin folder. I tried this but am not able to copy the NPSWF32.dll file to the SM plugin folder--I get an "access denied" message. Would appreciate any tips on how to solve this problem!

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#1

Use sudo infron of your command.

sudo your-command

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

you need to put libflashplayer.so in the plugins folder for seamonkey. You can find this with:

sudo find / -name "seamonkey*" | grep plug

you can save space by using a symbolic link to the plugin file in the folder output.

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Daniel (djr1215) said : 		#3

I tried what you suggested but there was no result.  I guess the libflashplayer.so file is not in my file system.  Where can I get a copy?

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Subject: Re: [Question #84158]: can't access seamonkey plugin folder
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Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 1:21 PM

Your question #84158 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/84158

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
you need to put libflashplayer.so in the plugins folder for seamonkey.
You can find this with:

sudo find / -name "seamonkey*" | grep plug

you can save space by using a symbolic link to the plugin file in the
folder output.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you provide the output of:

uname -a

The file architecture must match the architecture of your Ubuntu install

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Daniel (djr1215) said : 		#5

here's the output of "uname -a":

Linux daniel-desktop 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18
18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I did find the libflashplayer.so file by downloading the tar-gz version
of flash player from Adobe. I tried to copy it to Seamonkey plugins
folder but was unsuccessful. Here's the command I used and the result:

daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins/
cp: cannot create regular file
`/usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins/libflashplayer.so': Permission denied

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Daniel (djr1215) said : 		#6

I don't know how it got there but I checked in the Seamonkey plugins
folder and lo and behold the libflashplayer.so file was there. I guess
I did something right. Anyway, flash video is now working in SM.
Thanks for your help!

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Daniel (djr1215) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

awesome. BTW you are using 32bit.

You got the gold and thats all that counts :D

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Jean-Claude Sabourin (sabjeanclaude) said : 		#9

I use to have window and play slotsonly.com and cashbreak.com and now they ask me for plugins and I try but no chance witch one I need thank you