Ok, so I may have over-reacted a bit yesterday. It turns out setting up the adobe flash player instead of the Gnash player on the OLPC isn’t as tricky as I thought it might be! Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to get it working. Going through these steps will fix a lot of issues with flash-based web content / video / animations – all that fun stuff out there:
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Go into the Gnome environment by clicking on the little foot icon
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Open up the Terminal
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Login as root by typing in “su” – press enter
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Get the flash player linux package – type in: “wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/
current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm” – press enter -
This downloads the file to your computer. Next install the package by typing in:
“rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm” – press enter
That’s it! The default browser will now use the adobe flash player instead of the gnash one. BTW, OLPC already thought of this, and had a page – I just didn’t search long enough to find it…also, their instructions didn’t work (for me) – I had to get the file locally first before it installed:
Hey evan, nice experiments… but what does the average duck do, bc I can tell you they (and me) are not going to do what you just did. Teachers will want flash and most will not be interested in doing what you just did.
Although kids might…. In fact kids, now I think about it, kids will definately put flash on their machines so why not just put it on anyway??
I agree – it would be great if it were “there already.” OLPC’s philosophy is to make every aspect of the devices as open-source as possible – and I guess adobe flash player doesn’t fit into that philosophy.
hi i follllowed the instructions above, not sure whether its installed…howdo i check it.. is there any instructions.
i went to noggin .com but the flash is not enabled there so i think its not working…. can u help please thanks…prakash
hi i was able to install the flash player how ever the performance is too slow. any ideas on how to improvise this….
Hi Prakash – to test, go to a site w/ flash (noggin.com) you’ll still probably see a “click to play” thing appear, which is annoying – but it should load and the links within the flash should work, if they do, then it’s working. To get rid of the “click to play” – open up the terminal activity and type in:
su
cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity
mkdir bak
mv /usr/share/activities/Web.activity/agent-stylesheet.css bak
mv /usr/share/activities/Web.activity/clickToView.xml bak
(taken from the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash – scroll to the bottom)
Thank you so much for posting this fix.
As altruistic as the whole OLPC mission may be, my hidden intention was to keep Webkinz off my machine.
Now my little one can play without my constant nagging.
I found installing the opera compatible version of flash
flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm works very well with the default browser. IMO its better than the most current release.
Liam,
That sounds great. How do I do it? I couldn’t get Evan’s instructions to work.
Please mail me at saacnmama@hotmail.com
Thanks
J
If you have official firefox for sugar go to /home/olpc/Activitys/Firefox*/plugins/
do wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
then gunzip install*.tar.gz
then tar -xf install*.tar /home/olpc/Activitys/Fire*/plugins/libflashplayer.so
or something like that you need to get libflashplayer.so into your plugin foulder for your brower look at google