shockwave player on linux linpus lite (aspire one)

[_paul_]

Hello,

My daughter recently had a web book for her birthday, but I could do with getting shockwave player to work on it

Acer aspire one
OS: Linux linpus lite

first time with any Linux system so it is all a bit confusing,
I have upgraded the browser using command line functions to Firefox 3 (scary) hopeing that would solve the problem but it doesn't,

I have found another fix on the net but again it is a lot of command line stuff so I was wondering if anyone has managed to get shockwave player to work on the above OS as I really don't want to be breaking it,

the fix I found basically lets you install windows applications witch would solve my problem, (or at least should)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave

any information would be much appreciated

 

[yashiro]

You really don't want to be following guides for other distributions. Someone who's done this on linpus would be better to help.
If no one shows up then one of us will probably chip in with some generic fix. Probably me because I'm bored.

Obtain the 32bit Flash binary. Usually called libflashplayer.so.
And place it in the /home/yourname/.mozilla/plugins folder. That is it.

You can get the installer here:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
You could run the script but I'd suggest just copying the binary to place I said, closing all browsers, then re-open them and test youtube.

A recommended method for Linpus would be preferable over this really.
Though tbh I'd be well tempted to wipe that crud and just put Ubuntu on it.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Though tbh I'd be well tempted to wipe that crud and just put Ubuntu on it.

In Ubuntu, FYI, to install it and a bunch of other good stuff run
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras

 

[freebooter]

Acer provide a Firefox 3 package on their site

http://www.acer.co.uk/aspireone/8_9/

Are you sure you need shockwave and not just shockwave flash? Shockwave flash is quite easy to install and tbh I would have thought it was already installed on linpus.

The best place for Linpus support for the aspire one is here

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/

Linpus isn't bad for a basic distro and all the hardware works with it. The latest ubuntu works well and is quite easy to set up but it depends how computer literate you are and how much time you want to spend. There is a netbook version of the latest ubuntu that you can run from a usb stick or install.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook

The aspire one forums above have a ubuntu section but there is also quite a bit of info on ubuntu and the aspire one at the ubuntu forums as well.

http://ubuntuforums.org/

 

[_paul_]

thank you for the replys, sorry it has taken so long to get back to you,

flash is working but my daughter uses a site called miniclip and some of there games require adobe shockwave player, when i click to install it loads the adobe site with a message saying "sorry, your platform is not supported"

i have already updated the browser to firefox 3 but that hasent solved the problem,

as for Ubuntu, i have never heared of it lol,

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If it requires Shockwave specifically, not just flash, you might be out of luck as far as a slick, native client goes. AFAIK Shockwave is only available for Windows XP SP2 or better or OS X 10.4 or later.

If you want to use it I suppose the best way to do it would be to install Wine, run the Windows version of Firefox, and the Windows version of Shockwave. I don't know how easy Linpus makes it to install Wine. In the big distros it's usually as easy as typing wine into the package manager.

Ubuntu is a Linux distro that doesn't suck, possibly unlike Linpus. I haven't used it, only heard about its innate sucking. It's freely available for a boatload of platforms and would likely run well on the aforementioned netbook. It might take some faffing about to get it to be 100% perfect because, of course, the manufacturer didn't supply it with Ubuntu out of the box like, for instance, Dell does. Documentation seems to indicate that it mostly works well on most models. Hibernation might be an issue without manually fixing it.

On a mostly unrelated note, who the hell names a product "Linpus"? You'd think somebody doing the branding is an English speaker who is aware that "pus" has negative, or even nauseating connotations. I think I'm going to make a competing distro and call it Mucusix.

 

[_paul_]

thank you, i will have to look into it i think