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tar xvzf microb_flash-4.2007.tar.gz -C / (Again! Why????)


My 770 won't run a browser at all right now :-( and I am too tired to mess with it any more tonight. Maybe I will re-flash it tomorrow and start over again.

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I was in the same spot as you. It was not running a browser at all. I also questioned the sense of the last tar. I checked my /usr/lib directory to check if the libflashplayer.so was still there. It vanished. I did the last tar statement and it worked.

To recap:
I am on the latest OS2006 Version.
You need to get microb for 770
Use this link for reference http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/6/
You need to have this repository
Web Address: http://respository.maemo.org/extras/
Distribution Gregale
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In application manager choose microb to install

Go into Xterm and do exactly what computerfreek wrote including the last tar statement

tar xvzf microb_flash-4.2007.tar.gz -C /


Thanks computerfreek I also was having troubles with hacker edition.

cool i am happy you guys got it working . I have been on mine for a few hours now and i have not had one crash yet . check and see if there is any updates for your software . I did all my updates and rebooted it seemed to help not only with web stuff but with other apps.

Can someone please post the steps thay did from the start so i can update the 1st post so new users don't get all messed up.


When i reflash my device someday i will also need it . This way i don;t spend 2 days hacking at it

Computerfreek

Ps anyone know if there is a way to install the rtcomm sip phone addon on 2006os

So, has anyone found that this actually results in better flash performance overall? For me, at least, Youtube is useless, and that seems to be the big benefit to upgrading. (useless being no sound, "garbled" video, and serious lag/hang time while it attempts to download the data.) If the crashing continues, I think I'll revert.

There's a lot of nonsense being posted here. When somebody said to use the path /home/usr/lib, I knew that nobody really knew what they're talking about. For example, you don't have to use wget to get the file -- you can just download it with your browser by clicking the link on this forum. wget is simply a command-line file download tool. And you definitely don't need to untar the file twice.

Like I said, I had a bog-standard Opera setup. I installed the plugin using the instructions given, and created the symbolic link (which I believe is meant to solve a sound problem). No dice. Flash didn't appear and Opera became very crashy.

Why in the world would Opera need microb installing for the flash plugin to work? It's a bit like saying that, to get good radio reception in your car, you need to have a spare tire in the boot.

Anyway, let the user beware on this one. The potential for damage is high. Be aware that the flash lib file is probably lifted from an N800 and redistribution is breaking copyright.

Just to warn everyone who got this to work. "Do not disable Adobe Flash plugin.". I wanted to try disabling the flash player during normal browsing and only enable the Flash Plugin when I actually wanted to see a site with flash. After I disabled Flash, I tried to bring up the web browser. It would crash immediately so I could not enable it. Here is how I got it working again.
Opened Xterm

Type

There will be a directory called disabled and a file called libflashplayer.so.st. When you disable the flash plugin. It must move libflashplayer.so to the disabled directory

Now type
You now should have libflashplayer.so in the listing. Exit out of xterm and open your webbrowser. I thing I will create a script to automate the replacing of the flashplayer from version to 9 and version 6 and tinker a bit more.

I got this to work, but first I had to install microb. In addition, I downloaded and extracted microb_flash-4.2007.tar.gz on my pc (to see what the archive contained), transferred the files to the tablet, then used xterm to copy the files in place and create the symlinks. I verified the installation by confirming that Opera was the default browser then visiting a weather website that requires Flash 9 to display the weather maps and the maps loaded.

Ron G

Since there was a request for what steps were used to get it working, I'll post what I did (basically what was suggested):


Downloaded through browser:
http://nmacleod.com/nokia/n800/micro...-4.2007.tar.gz

opened xterm:
# sudo gainroot

Backed up libflashplayer.so:
# cp /usr/lib/browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so ./

unpacked tarball (this overwrites libflashplayer.so, above, so no need to rm it first):
# tar -xvzf microb_flash-4.2007.tar.gz -C /

changed directory and created symbolic link:
# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s libplayback-1.so.0.0.4 libplayback-1.so.0

then exited root and created the mozilla symlink. Note: I do not have microb installed, but do have minimo installed. The plugins directory did not exist, and I haven't actually tried flash with minimo yet. This step should have absolutely no effect on the opera performance but I did it anyways.
# cd /home/user/
# mkdir .mozilla/plugins/
# ln -s /usr/lib/browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

[QUOTE=tarheeltablet;83783]Just to warn everyone who got this to work. "Do not disable Adobe Flash plugin.". I wanted to try disabling the flash player during normal browsing and only enable the Flash Plugin when I actually wanted to see a site with flash. After I disabled Flash, I tried to bring up the web browser. It would crash immediately so I could not enable QUOTE]

I am can disable mine via plugin list just fine . And my browers starts and stops just fine . Maybe yor missing something . Can someone other than me test to see what happens to there system ?

It's funny how all are system's run so different some work some don't But i gess it all matters what you have install and what ver of software you have.

I just hope the next time i have to reflash my system it runs just as good as it is now .

Thanks Computerfreek

My system works fine when I disable the plug-in from the plugin list.

computerfreek,

Were you the kind of kid who still got his hand burnt on the stove even after being told it is not a good idea. I guess I will have to try again. Well I just tried to disable Flash plugin when Opera was my default browser and everything was fine. My default browser and active browser was Microb when I disabled it the first time. I switched over to Microb to see if that was ok. It was ok as well. But.. Flash is enabled in Microb and disabled in Opera. Perhaps I will keep it this way and just switch over to Microb when I encouter a site that requires flash.