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How to install flash&java on Songbird Ubuntu
Hey ya'll jus installed songbird 0.61 from a .debs file i downloaded from getdebs.org. i'm totally new to songbird but i'm loving it cuz its a COOL MEDIA PLAYER
the problem i'm having is songbird does not pickup flash, java or any of my mplayers plugins (i checked about plugins and its blank) so i cant watch any videos on youtube even though flash is already installed on my ubuntu 8.04 desktop. i installed all the gstreamer dependencies so i am able to play my Mp3 music files but i cant play flash vids or java in my songbird web browser.
how do i get songbird to recognize that i hav flash an java installed ?? or
how can i install flash,java in songbird ??
i need simple walk through steps cuz i'm also pretty new to Ubuntu but i kinda kno ma way aroun :P
any help or links to help is welcome
thanks in advance
the problem i'm having is songbird does not pickup flash, java or any of my mplayers plugins (i checked about plugins and its blank) so i cant watch any videos on youtube even though flash is already installed on my ubuntu 8.04 desktop. i installed all the gstreamer dependencies so i am able to play my Mp3 music files but i cant play flash vids or java in my songbird web browser.
how do i get songbird to recognize that i hav flash an java installed ?? or
how can i install flash,java in songbird ??
i need simple walk through steps cuz i'm also pretty new to Ubuntu but i kinda kno ma way aroun :P
any help or links to help is welcome
thanks in advance
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Inappropriate?hey ashughes that link u provided didnt point me to anything helpful . . when i click the link i get "You do not have permissions to view this page"
i had to create an account an even after creating it i still didnt get any info if any info is truly there can u copy it an paste it on this blog?
i dont see a thing
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Inappropriate?Sorry, try it again. I must have forgot to change the permissions on the article.
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Inappropriate?hey ashughes kool tuturial :P
i followed ur instructions an got the java bin file, ran the commands in the terminal accept the licence agreement an did the rest of the tutorial but in the end wen i went to about:plugins, theres still No Java there in Songbird . .
i dont kno wats wrong cuz i did everthing u say without any errors in the terminal . . i'm not giving up on songbird though . .
i hav space constraints on my present Drive (40 Gb) so i'm gonna do a upgrade to a bigger drive (320 Gb) an a clean install soon . . i'll let u kno wat happen after a clean install of ubuntu on a bigger Drive + Songbird . .
i saved ur tutorial and the java file so wen i reinstall my programs i will attempt to add java to songbird again ..
but in the mean time i'm gonna continue enjoy the lovely songs and beautiful interface of Songbird ;)
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?I am not sure why this is not working for you. It works for most anyone else that tries. One of the biggest pitfalls of Linux is that each install can be so different from others; which is why it is so hard to support.
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Inappropriate?ok kool . .
dont worry man i'll post back when i do a clean install
i think the reason why it didnt work is bcuz i was doing alota experimenting wid Ubuntu . . so maybe one of my directory got messed up or something . .
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Inappropriate?hey ashugles . .
i jus did a fresh install of ubuntu 8.04 then install song bird and it still didnt pick up my plugins again and this was ver 0.7
wat i had to was:
my songbird plugins is located at: /usr/share/Songbird/plugins for both java and flash. i had to copy flash from : /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so and paste it in/usr/share/Songbird/plugins to get flash to work
then i had to run a java command like this sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so/usr/share/Songbird/plugins to install java (i got this command from the FLOCK site and like how flock an songbird is based off MOZILLA i thought it wud work and it did)
thx for your help . . i havent had any luck installing my multimedia plugins like totem,geck-mplayer,for embedded videos but thts kool .. i can live without those but i cant live without flash and java on the web . .
thnx again
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Inappropriate?@Sillat, you should not need multimedia plugins for Songbird. Songbird will utilize all GStreamer plugins that you have installed. If you have the gstreamer packages to handle the codecs used by the embedded videos you are trying to play, it should work.1 Comment
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Hey ashughes . . i didnt kno tht u dont need the multimedia plugins to play the embeded vids . .
thnx for the tip . . i am going to give it a try and see wat will happen
also i see some multimedia add-ons for songbird in ur Extentions category tht am interested in giving a test run . .
i like the New User Interface of 0.7 . . its beautiful . . no problems so far
Keep up the good work man
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Inappropriate?Yes, plugins are required for all OSes whether it is embedded or not. Windows and OS X come with a lot of these plugins preinstalled. Due to licensing issues, most Linux distros do not include these plugins. GStreamer fills this void. But it is up to the user to install these plugins.
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Inappropriate?Hello
In Ubuntu it suffices to make a link for just /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so (default location in Ubuntu) in the Songbird application folder's plugins directory (Songbird/plugins).
By using a link, the plugin gets automatically updated when the main Flash plugin package gets updated by the package manager.
I did it manually here and works like a charm.
Of course, when the developers make the app detect the plugin automatically, this is no longer needed.
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