libflash-mozplugin_0.4.13-9_powerpc.deb?

[kilaueabart]

A lot of web sites I visit tell me that "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page." So far as I know, those plugins are always a more up-to-date version of Shockwave Flash than I had.

Because updating Package Manager and searching with "shockwave" or "flash" never brought up anything relevant, I assumed there was no such plugin for PPC Linux.

But eventually I googled around a bit, and aside from declarations that there would never be a flash player for ppc Linux, I found something that is maybe supposed to work in a file called libflash-mozplugin_0.4.13-9_powerpc.deb.

I guess I don't know what to do with a .deb file (It is "open" and "has been raised"). Oddly, for a few days now when I start Firefox from Konsole, I get this message:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so [libflash.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

This seems to me to be at odds with:

bart@amigaone:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20500 Jul 7 16:04 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so

Am I totally wasting my time anyway?

[cheesecake42]

try installing the mozilla web browser. it might be made for that instead of firefox.

[kilaueabart]

try installing the mozilla web browser. it might be made for that instead of firefox.

That might possibly be the reason I don't get the complaint when I launch Mozilla (but I still get the "you need to update flash" messages in Mozilla too).

More likely, it seems to me, is that it isn't installed properly--the results of downloading libflash-mozplugin_0.4.13-9_powerpc.deb and libflash0c2_0.4.13-9_powerpc.deb and trying to unarchive them results in this absurd-looking file structure:

/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflash-mozplugin_0.4.13-9_powerpc
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 955 Jul 27 14:37 control.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 14212 Jul 27 14:37 data.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 4 Jul 27 14:37 debian-binary
drwxr-xr-x 2 bart bart 4096 Jul 28 16:08 libflash0c2_0.4.13-9_powerpc

where the last contains

-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 952 Jul 28 16:08 control.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 66741 Jul 28 16:08 data.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 bart bart 4 Jul 28 16:08 debian-binary

I would expect /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ to contain a libflash-mozplugin or maybe a libflash-mozplugin.so and a libflash0c2 or something. But I don't know how to get them.