Bug 113238 - Installing flash-player needs .mozilla
Summary: Installing flash-player needs .mozilla
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Ruediger Oertel
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Reported: 2005-08-26 09:11 UTC by Marcel Hilzinger
Modified: 2005-09-06 16:19 UTC (History)
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Description Marcel Hilzinger 2005-08-26 09:11:48 UTC 
Open SUSE comes without flash-player. If you will install the player and did  
not use any other browser, than Konqueror, the install will fail, because,  
there's no .mozilla directory.  
A fix would also be to tell the flash installer, to create 
the .mozilla/plugins directory, if there's none. 
  
If install succedes, Konqueror will not see the plugin, as searching for new  
plugins at KDE start is disabled by default. So you have to search for it 
manually. Perhaps this could be improved.
Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2005-08-27 08:31:50 UTC 
I'm not sure I understand.. you install the flash player by downloading the  
flash player for linux from the macromedia website and install it as normal 
user (no system-wide installation) ?
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-27 08:48:27 UTC 
I don't understand either. We do not maintain the flash installer
Comment 3 Marcel Hilzinger 2005-08-27 17:08:07 UTC 
#1: Yes exactly. 
#2: I know. But perhaps you have good contacts. 
 
The easiest solution is to add ~/.mozilla to the skeleton files (this is not 
KDE-related then). The KDE-related problem is the one with not searching for 
plugins automatically.
Comment 4 Alexey Eremenko 2005-09-03 15:57:51 UTC 
Well, that's a serious problem.

For example, when I start FireFox, and go to any flash-enabled web site (such as
nvidia.com) it asks to install the flash plugin, however, that fails for unknown
reasons, requiring me to install it manually, which took me an hour just to
figure out how to install this piece of software.
Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-05 21:56:36 UTC 
Rudi, do you want to add .mozilla to the skeletons? I don't see another 
solution to this problem right now.
Comment 6 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-05 22:47:37 UTC 
aj, should I ? 
(technically not really a problem ... do we want that directory there?)
Comment 7 Andreas Jaeger 2005-09-06 06:30:57 UTC 
Add it...
Comment 8 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-06 16:19:20 UTC 
submitted for RC2