Macromedia
Flash Player 7 for Solaris 
Mozilla Plug-in
Version 7.0.53.0 
September 2004

 
In an effort to keep our customers up to date with the most recent features, functionality and bug fixes, we have issued a new version of the player. Macromedia recommends that all users upgrade to the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. This update is version 7.0.53.0.

Supported Distributions
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- See the Systems Requirements (http://www.macromedia.com/go/flashplayer_sysreq_en/)

Privacy
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Macromedia is committed to preserving the privacy of end users. For more information on configuring Client-side privacy visit the Settings Manager Documentation: http://www.macromedia.com/go/flashplayerhelp.

Installation
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The Flash Player Plug-in installer for Solaris is script-based and cannot be run from a GUI. If you are installing as a non-root user, skip ahead to "Installing the Flash Player Plug-in".

When you execute the install script as root, you will be asked to enter full path to the Mozilla binary. In most cases, this is not the same location as what the "which" command returns. If you do not know where Mozilla is installed, follow these steps:-
- Launch Mozilla
- Launch Terminal
- In Terminal, type "ps -ef | grep mozilla-bin".
- Note the full path to "mozilla-bin"
- Proceed to the next section.

Installing the Flash Player Plug-in

- Uncompress flash_player_7_solaris_sparc.tar.gz/flash_player_7_solaris_x86.tar.gz. A directory called install_flash_player_7_solaris is created. Navigate to this directory.
- From the command line, type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer. The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).
- If prompted, enter full path to the Mozilla binary.
- Complete the installation.
- To verify the installation, choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser's menu.

To manually install the Plug-in Player for Solaris, follow these directions:

- Copy the following files to the appropriate plugins folder (where Mozilla is installed, or inside .mozilla in the user's home directory):
libflashplayer.so
flashplayer.xpt 

Uninstall instructions
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To remove the Plug-in Player for Solaris:

For root users:
- Quit the browser.
- Navigate to the browser's plug-in directory.
- Remove libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt.


For non-root users:

- Quit the browser.
- Navigate to your home directory and locate the folder named .mozilla.
- From that folder, open the folder named plugin and remove libflashplayer.so, flashplayer.xpt and x-shockwave-flash.desktop. 

Internationalization
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Flash Player 7 is internationalized for a number of languages.  Flash Player determines the language setting from the environment variable LANG. If LANG is not set the players will default to English.

To set LANG in .bashrc:
      export LANG=spanish
or .cshrc
      setenv LANG es

These locales are currently recognized:

==========================================================================
Language     | Set LANG to            | Or                               |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
English      | C,  LC, POSIX, english | en_*                             |
German       | de, deutsch, german    | de_*                             |
Spanish      | spanish                | es_*                             |
French       | français, french       | fr_BE, fr_CA, fr,FR, fr_LU       |
Italian      | italian                | it_IT, it_CH                     |
Swedish      | swedish                | sv_FI, sv_SE                     |
Portuguese   | portuguese             | pt_BR, pt_PT                     |
Japanese     | japanese               | ja_JP                            |
Korean       | korean                 | ko_KR                            |
Chinese Simp |  -                     | zh_CN                            |
Chinese Trad |  -                     | zh_TW                            |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

To see the many options for en, de and es:

      locale -a | grep en
      locale -a | grep de
      locale -a | grep es

Technical Issues and Reporting Bugs
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The Webplayers Discussion Group provides an open forum to discuss technical issues regarding Macromedia Players. Also of interest are the Flash and Flash Site Design Discussion Groups. Macromedia Technical Support actively monitors these groups, as well as hosting a community of users there. Descriptions and links to these discussion groups can be found at: http://www.macromedia.com/go/supportforums

Bug reports may be sent to flashplayerunix@macromedia.com. To allow us to investigate reported bugs, please include the following information:

1) Platform and version
2) Browser version
3) Reproducible steps including a URL to the web site where the problem was encountered.

If we need further information about a bug, you will be contacted.  An automated reply will be sent to assure you that we have received your bug report.  Due to the volume of mail received we are not able to individually respond to each report.

  
