Macromedia
Flash Player 7 for Linux
Plug-in
Version 7.0.25.0 
May 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 7.0.25.0.

Supported Distributions
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- See the Systems Requirements (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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To install the Plug-in Player for Linux via an install script, follow these directions:
- This installer is script-based and cannot be run from a GUI.
- Uncompress install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz. A directory called install_flash_player_7_linux 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).
- Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser's menu.


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

- Copy the following files to your browser's plugins folder: 
libflashplayer.so 
flashplayer.xpt 


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

For root users:

- Quit the browser.
- Navigate to the browser's plug-in directory (i.e. /usr/local/mozilla/plugins).
- 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.


Optimal X Server Configuration
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Flash Player should work with any X server configuration. However,optimal performance is achieved at the following color depths and color mask settings:


Depth: 8
Visual: PseudoColor

Depth: 15
Bits Per Pixel: 16
Visual: TrueColor
Red Mask: 0x00007C00
Green Mask: 0x000003E0
Blue Mask: 0x0000001F

Depth: 16
Bits Per Pixel: 16
Visual: TrueColor
Red Mask: 0x0000F800
Green Mask: 0x000007E0
Blue Mask: 0x0000001F

Depth: 24
Bits Per Pixel: 24
Visual: TrueColor
Red Mask: 0x00FF0000
Green Mask: 0x0000FF00
Blue Mask: 0x000000FF

Depth: 32
Bits Per Pixel: 32
Visual: TrueColor
Red Mask: 0x00FF0000
Green Mask: 0x0000FF00
Blue Mask: 0x000000FF

Depth: 32
Bits Per Pixel: 32
Visual: TrueColor
Red Mask: 0x000000FF
Green Mask: 0x0000FF00
Blue Mask: 0x00FF0000

In addition, the X server's image byte order must match the host byte order in order to achieve optimal performance using one of the above configurations.

Macromedia Flash Player takes advantage of the the MIT-SHM Shared Memory Extension. This will boost performance on supported systems.


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, POSIX, english 		| en_*
German			| de, deutsch, german		| de_*
Spanish			| spanish			| es_*
French			| francais, 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.