how to get persistent flash in tiny core

[manit123]

hi
I have noticed that in case of adobe flash you have to copy libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins

I boot from USB .
How can I make it persistent on every reboot ?
Is there any  way that ~/.mozilla/plugins folder gets saved on shutdown .

[Rich]

Hi manit123
First you have to get your problems from your tce-load thread straightened out.

[manit123]

In similiar context ,
I have installed sun-jre .
'java -version' says
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode

By default java is not recognised by firefox.
When I add link to /tmp/tcloop/sun-jre/usr/local/java-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins folder then java in browser works.
I believe , here also I have to find a way to save ~/.mozilla/plugins folder.

[Rich]

Hi manit123
As long as there is a line that reads  home  in your  /opt/.filetool.lst  file, the contents of your homr directory will
be backed up.
Some of your problems could have avoided by spending some time reading the FAQs and the Wiki.

[manit123]

I have used core2usb to create bootable usb of tinycore.
Downside was it needs an empty pendrive.
I notice that mydata.tgz contains home & opt folder.
Will they be automatically restored on next boot or I have to do it manually ?

[manit123]

I see that on selecting restore in control panel I get flash & java plugin in firefox as  they relate to ~/.mozilla/plugins
Anyway to set this option at boot ?

[tinypoodle]

Should be auto scanned for at boot time.

[Rich]

Hi manit123

Anyway to set this option at boot ?

Yes. Stop manually installing extensions, use AppBrowser for that. It will automatically install applications so
that they are available when you boot. Make sure those two extensions are listed in  tce/onboot.lst.

[manit123]

Now , it is automatically restoring the /home/tc folder .
I need to find meaning of about safe option.
Also about on boot , on demand in apps.

[manit123]

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:backup
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_apps

[manit123]

I was trying to make my backup useful but small.
So here is my /opt/.filetool.lst

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opt
home
#files from flash player 11 tarball
usr/bin/flash-player-properties
usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_adobe_flash_player.desktop
usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop
usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png
usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
#files for opera & firefox browser
usr/local/firefox-official/plugins/libflashplayer.so
usr/local/firefox-official/plugins/libnpjp2.so
usr/lib/opera/plugins/libnpjp2.so
#note that libnpjp2.so points to  /tmp/tcloop/sun-jre/usr/local/java-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
The files & folder to exclude are in /opt/.xfiletool.lst

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Cache
cache
.cache
XUL.mfasl
XPC.mfasl
mnt
.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache
.macromedia/Flash_Player
.opera/opcache
.opera/cache4
.Xauthority
.wmx
# i added following as I do not want web history or cookies or cache
home/tc/.opera-11
home/tc/.mozilla

Please suggest any improvement ?
Also I have copied libflashplayer.so to usr/lib/opera/plugins/ . Yet opera does not play flash ?

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if we install get-flash-11 app then I see
/tmp/tcloop/flash11/
`-- usr
    `-- local
        |-- share
        |   `-- flash11
        |       |-- libflashplayer.so
        |       `-- libflashsupport.so
        `-- tce.installed
            `-- flash11

5 directories, 3 files
libflashplayer.so has same md5sum as the file from install-flash-player11 tarball .
Seems the other two files made the difference for opera .

Also I have noticed that on excluding folder ~/.opera-11 .
There is no way I can include file ~/.opera-11/operaprefs.ini .
Is there a workaround ?

[Rich]

Hi manit123
I don't think filetool.lst and xfiletool.lst are supposed to have comments in them. Entries in the xfiletool.lst overide
entries in the filetool.lst file. If you only want to include  ~/.opera-11/operaprefs.ini in your backup, you have to
exclude everything except that. For the individual files in  ~/.opera-11/ you can probably use wildcards like:

home/tc/.opera-11/*.dat

Don't forget to exclude the lock file from your backup.

[manit123]

the comments I had added while posting to explain my opinion.

excluding all files of .opera-11 individually will be difficult as new files get created on browsing.

Anyway , that means either I save all opera history to have customised settings or start afresh on every startup with default settings saving backup space.

[Rich]

Hi manit123
You shouldn't have to exclude all the files individually. See if adding this to your xfiletool.lst works:

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home/tc/.opera-11/application_cache
home/tc/.opera-11/cache
home/tc/.opera-11/dictionaries
home/tc/.opera-11/icons
home/tc/.opera-11/lock
home/tc/.opera-11/opcache
home/tc/.opera-11/pstorage
home/tc/.opera-11/sessions
home/tc/.opera-11/styles
home/tc/.opera-11/temporary_downloads
home/tc/.opera-11/thumbnails
home/tc/.opera-11/toolbar
home/tc/.opera-11/vps
home/tc/.opera-11/webserver
home/tc/.opera-11/widgets
home/tc/.opera-11/*.adr
home/tc/.opera-11/*.dat
home/tc/.opera-11/*.js
home/tc/.opera-11/*.log
home/tc/.opera-11/*.xmlThat should exclude everything except the .ini files.

[tinypoodle]

Maybe more simple and reliable to just manually copy the desired file(s) to a different dir within /home/tc before backing up (while excluding .opera).