shockwave support in FC1?

[Rick Chen]

if you use firefox a good howto in this site.
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox-flash

if you uses mozilla you can get flash installer from macromedia site.
untar file 
copy flashplayer-installer & libflashplayer.so 
to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and you all set to go!!
have fun

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 20:36 -0400, linux r wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought sybex's linux+ book which says its cd will run over
> Linux or some cruddier OS's.  I cannot get either the 'flashcards' or
> the 'test engine' section of the cd to run over FC1.  It tells me to
> get the shockwave plug in.  I did all this logged in as root, so it
> naturally put stuff under /root.  Macromedia.com says their downloads
> support Red Hat 9, but there shouldn't be a significant differrence
> between that and FC1 (right?)
> 
> /mnt/cdrom/Flashcards/PC
> It put the flashplayer_installer.tar.gz file under /root
> Unpacked it creates a directory called flashplayer_installer
> Then it tells you to un-tar it but it says to do so from
> /flashplayer_installer.  But when I cd to the root, there is no such
> directory (thank god I didnt' want it t there anyway).  But there ALSO
> isn't one under /root anyway so I am confused.   ?
> 
> Error messages I get:  
> tar (child): /root/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open:
> No such file or directory
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer-installer: Not found in archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> NOW the only thing I know to do -- try to run these things off the cd 
> --('.exe style')....
> When I doublecick any of the icons, it wants to associate an app with
> the .swf files that are on the cd which I am hoping will work. 
> Question for the group is:   Is there a way to fool shockwave so I can
> get this thing working?
> 
> For giggles meanwhile I just tried to open the electonic book pdf file
> on the cd (easy, right?)   xpdf tells me it is encrypted and password
> protected and it can't open it.  ggv tells me 'file is not a vaild
> postscript document'.  [GRR... this works on an xp box at my
> workplace, and did NOT require a password! ]
> 
> Btw, I just upgraded the whole os via yum, also loaded wine to see if
> that would work (must I buy 'crossover' and hope for the best?  How
> irritating, not to get something suppossedly *SO* simple going...Any
> info is greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Marc
> 
>