I'm using Slackware 13.37, 32 bit. I'm trying to get Adobe flash working, and was using a guide I found here:
http://www.basicconfig.com/install_a...lackware_linux

It boiled down to extracting Adobe and copying /libflashplayer.so to usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/plugins. Bash showed that was done successfully, but when I closed Firefox and opened it back up, checking 'about;plugins' didn't show anything about flash. Youtube still says I need it, so I'm off looking for plan B.
I downloaded http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...player-plugin/ and tried getting that to work. Nothing changed after I extracted that, but what gets me is that the Slackbuild file appears to be a duplicate of the file I downloaded from Adobe. The two files have the same name, with a #(2) added to one of them. Maybe I'm seeing things wrong, as I said I've already extracted the Adobe file once, and now have a folder labeled "usr" in Downloads that contains three other folders with bin,lib and share as their labels. I have the file libflashplayer.so showing in Downloads also.

You can download Eric's package for flash. Install the package by running:

# installpkg packagename.txz

http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/s...gin/pkg/13.37/

P.S. The slackbuild for flash does work I suggest that you read the how to documentation at slackbuilds.org

just copy the libflashplayer.so file to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory and restart firefox.

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Sure that will work. But, I prefer to install packages that can easily be upgraded or removed later. Hence, I use official updates, and third party stuff from Eric, Robby, and build scripts from SBo. Each to his own.

We are good in making things more complicated than they normally are.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4398071

Trying to get the jist of how things work with Slackbuild. I've gotten the flash-player-plugin directory in Downloads after extracting the Slackbuilds tar.gz file. I'm having a problem getting the Adobe file into that same directory, which is what I assume is necessary for things to work. I try dragging the file into the directory, but that doesn't work.

Awright, I got it workin'. Copying ibflashplayer.so file to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory and restarting firefox did indeed work. I though that's what I'd done when I copied it previously, but I used the firefox version number, maybe that screwed it up, I don't know. Just "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" took care of things...for now, anyways.
I still want to know what it takes for Slackbuilds, I know I'm going to need someday.

Yes. You do need the adobe file in that directory. You could just copy the adobe file into the flash directory. Navigate to your download directory where you have the adobe file. Then issue this command: # cp adobefile /home/yourusername/downloaddirectory/flashdirectory
Then navigate to that directory with your terminal prompt:

cd /home/yourusername/downloaddirectory/flashdirectory

Then you will need to make the slackbuild script within the flash directory executable:

# chmod +x flash-player-plugin-SlackBuild

Then run the slackbuild:

# ./flash-player-plugin-SlackBuild

That command will create a Slackware flash package which will be deposited into your /tmp directory.

Navigate to /tmp:

cd /tmp

Install the the package:

# installpkg flashpackage_SBo

**Note: All of these steps are outlined at slackbuilds.org.