Linux Flash Player

Linux Flash Player

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If you need to run swf files or either flash movies generally under linux, you should install a flash player accordingly. Gnash is a free Flash movie player, which works either standalone, or as plugin for Firefox/Mozilla or Konqueror. Currently it is in a alpha state. The plugins are under heavy development at this time.

Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version 8.5. All the core ones are implemented, and many of the newer ones work, but may be missing some of their methods.

Included in the Gnash is an XML based messaging system, as specified in the Flash specification. This lets a flash movie communicate over a TCP/IP socket, and parse the incoming XML message. This lets a movie be a remote control for other devices or applications.

This package includes the standalone GTK+-based OpenGL player.

To install Gnash in Fedora :-

• Open terminal
• Change your permission to be root, write su
• Then write : yum install gnash

To install Gnash in ubuntu :-

• Open terminal
• Change your permission to be root, write sudo -s
• Then write : sudo apt-get install gnash

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Have fun.

Customize Java in ubuntu

Customize Java in ubuntu

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Sometimes ubuntu uses the java 1.6 as a default, wheres you need to use a another version of sun java like java 1.5. In this case you have to tell ubuntu which java you are looking forward to use.

Fellow the next steps in order solve your problem :-

• Download the jdk version in which it will be used as default from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp (jdk 5 in our example here).
• Open a Terminal window
• Change your privileges to be root, write sudo -s.
• Run sudo update-java-alternatives -l to see the current configuration and possibilities.
• Run sudo update-java-alternatives -s XXXX to set the XXXX java version as default. For Sun Java 5 this would be sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.5.0-sun
• Run java -version to ensure that the correct version is being called.

You can also use the following command to interactively make the change;

• Open a Terminal window
• Run sudo update-alternatives --config java
• Follow the onscreen prompt

Any questions post them as a comment below. Have fun.