VIAAS Support

How do I get VIASS to work on LInux?

You will need to install the latest flash plug-in available for your distribution. For example, on Ubuntu 10.4 or later, you can get it simply via Synaptic.

For an example of how to proceed for older distributions, the following steps have been tested on an Ubuntu 9.04 running on an AMD64 system and using Firefox browser to access the VIAAS service.

• Download Adobe Flash Player 10 for Ubuntu on amd64 from
  
  http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
  


• Unpackage downloaded package to some temporary location.
  
  $ tar xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
  


• Check that .mozilla/plugins dir exists in your $HOME directory. If not, create it.
  
  $ mkdir -p .mozilla/plugins
  


• Move the extracted file to the plugins directory.
  
  $ mv libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins
  


• Restart firefox. Visit about:plugins in browser and check that it is enabled.