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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

John T Copeland wrote:
>  I just downloaded Macromedia's Flash Player 6 for Linux to support the 
> plugin requirements of a website I am interested in viewing, 
> 'scifi.com/taken'.  After installing the plugin mozilla 1.1 does not 
> find it.  I note in the installation instructions Player6 requires some 
> device fonts? to be installed as below:
>
> Device fonts require outline fonts to be installed.  This is a change 
> from Flash Player 5 for Linux.  Some fonts to install:
> ttfonts
> urw-fonts
> ttfonts-ja for Japanese device fonts
> ttfonts-ko for Korean device fonts
> ttfonts-zh_TW for traditional Chinese device fonts
> ttfonts-zh_CN for simplified Chinese device fonts
>
> The above is from the Flash6 readme file.  The installer says:
> NOTE: ttfonts and urw-fonts are required fonts.
>
> 1) Are these fonts in the grimoire?
> 2) If not where might I get them?
> 3) Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> JohnC
>
> The "About Plugins" shows only the null plugin

Before trying the fonts thing, try making a symlink in the plugins 
directory libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> 
/opt/gcc2/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so*

or libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> 
/opt/gcc2/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so*

depending on which file actually exists in /opt/gcc2

Geoff