Macromedia
Flash Player 6 for Solaris
Mozilla Plug-in
Update Version 6.0.81.0
15 March 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 6.0.81.0.
New in This Version
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- Shared Object Security Enhancements
Flash Player now stores persistent shared objects in unpredictable locations. This improves client-side web security.
Software Environment
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Operating System:
Solaris 8
Solaris 9Platform:
SPARC
X86Browsers:
Sun Mozilla 1.2.1 or greater
Mozilla 1.0/Netscape 7.0 or greater
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 following section assumes that you have unpacked the archive flash_player_6_solaris_sparc.tar.gz/flash_player_6_solaris_x86.tar.gz into the top level of your user directory. Your user directory is referred to as $HOME.The Macromedia Flash Player can be installed in two ways:
A. Install the Macromedia Flash Player system-wide, making it
available
to all users of the computer
OR
B. Install the Macromedia Flash Player in a user account, making it available only to that user.
A. Installing the Macromedia Flash Player System-Wide:
You will need root access to the computer to install the Macromedia Flash Player system-wide.
1. Copy the Macromedia Flash Player (libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt)into the Netscape/Mozilla plug-in directory.
2. restart Netscape/Mozilla.
3. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location
bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins.
You should see the Macromedia Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash
6.0 r81"
4. To test the Macromedia Flash Player go to: http://www.macromedia.com/go/flashplayerversion
B. Installing the Macromedia Flash Player in a User Account:
1. If you have not already used Netscape/Mozilla from the user
account,
launch Netscape/Mozilla and close it. This will create a
preferences directory (.netscape/.mozilla) in your home directory.
2. Create a plugins directory in the Netscape/Mozilla preferences
directory.
If the mkdir command reports the error "cannot make directory:
File exists", do not be alarmed. This means only that the
directory was already present and did not need to be created.
3. Copy the libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt into the plug-in directory.
4. Restart Netscape/Mozilla.
5. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location
bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins.
You should see the Macromedia Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash
6.0"
6. To test the Macromedia Flash Player go to: http://www.macromedia.com/go/flashplayerversion
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 6 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 |
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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.