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| − | August | + | == History == |
| + | On August 24, 2011, Hulu decided to block video access to Touchpad users everywhere with no application in sight. This fix allows access to Hulu again, but may impact other Flash objects on the internet. What is affected is unknown at this point. | ||
| + | On August 26, 2011, this is now '''an installable patch''' within the WebOS-Internals patch feed using Preware. | ||
| − | == Install with | + | == Install with webOS Quick Install == |
| − | + | Open webOS Quick Install. | |
| − | + | Go to tools and then Linux Commandline. | |
| − | Copy and | + | Copy, paste, and enter each line separately: |
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
cd / | cd / | ||
| − | + | cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak | |
| − | sed -i 's/WEB 10/WIN 10/' libflashplayer.so | + | sed -i 's/WEB 10/WIN 10/' /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so |
| + | reboot | ||
</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
| − | |||
| − | |||
== Install with Terminus/Putty/Novacom == | == Install with Terminus/Putty/Novacom == | ||
| + | Copy, paste, and enter each line separately: | ||
| + | <pre><nowiki> | ||
| + | cd / | ||
| + | cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak | ||
| + | sed -i 's/WEB 10/WIN 10/' /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so | ||
| + | reboot | ||
| + | </nowiki></pre> | ||
| − | Copy and paste: | + | == Undo your changes == |
| + | Copy and paste the following into webOS Quick Install's Linux Commandline or your Terminus/Putty/Novacom terminal: | ||
<pre><nowiki> | <pre><nowiki> | ||
cd / | cd / | ||
| − | + | cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so | |
| − | + | reboot | |
</nowiki></pre> | </nowiki></pre> | ||
Latest revision as of 05:57, 6 September 2011
History
On August 24, 2011, Hulu decided to block video access to Touchpad users everywhere with no application in sight. This fix allows access to Hulu again, but may impact other Flash objects on the internet. What is affected is unknown at this point.
On August 26, 2011, this is now an installable patch within the WebOS-Internals patch feed using Preware.
Install with webOS Quick Install
Open webOS Quick Install.
Go to tools and then Linux Commandline.
Copy, paste, and enter each line separately:
cd / cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak sed -i 's/WEB 10/WIN 10/' /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so reboot
Install with Terminus/Putty/Novacom
Copy, paste, and enter each line separately:
cd / cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak sed -i 's/WEB 10/WIN 10/' /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so reboot
Undo your changes
Copy and paste the following into webOS Quick Install's Linux Commandline or your Terminus/Putty/Novacom terminal:
cd / cp /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so.bak /usr/lib/BrowserServerPlugins/libflashplayer.so reboot