Setting Up Flock On Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bit
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As some you who’ve been keeping up with the blog know, I’m going to do the thirty day challenge to see what it is all about. Right now it is in its pre-season which entails getting your computer set up with the tools that are going to be used throughout the challenge. I don’t use Windows machines or Macs so everything is a bit different for me. But the good thing is that linux is becoming a more recognized platform and a lot of the Web 2.0 type software is supporting it.
Flock is available for linux but in 32 bit form. However it is not difficult to set it up on a Hardy Heron 64 bit system. Here are the steps I followed to get it setup on my machine:
Steps top set up Flock on a Ubuntu Hardy 64 bit System:
1. Download flock from here.
2. The downloaded file will be in a compressed tar.gz, I extracted the file into my home directory using the terminal with the following command.
tar -zxvf flock-1.2.4.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz ~/
3. Now go to your home folder in the file browser(nautilus) and go to the resulting flock directory. Double click on the file named Flock. the following screen will appear asking you how you want to run the program. Just click run.
4. Now Flock should load, but when trying to go to any websites, you may get the following message and not be able to surf the web.
5. Now you need to type about:config into the address bar and navigate to that page. It will look like this.
6. Now you need to scroll down on this page until you find an entry labeled network.dns.disableIPv6. It is most likely set to false.
7. You need to set the value to true by clicking on false. This will disable IPv6. Your local hardware setup might be unable to handle the protocol or the flock environment itself may be having trouble with name resolution and establishing tcp connections on the 64 bit system. Anyway, trying setting it to true to disable IPv6.
8. Now if you type in a site in the address bar, you should be able to navigate to it.
9. Now flash may are may not be working inside the Flock browser.
10. You can try several ways to get it working in Flock. Flash can be tricky sometimes. The simplest thing to do is try to copy your existing npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to the flock plugins directory. Starting with a fresh terminal, try the following.
11. Shutdown the Flock browser and reopen it. If flash loaded, you will see the flash content, if not you will receive the message flash plugin needs to be installed again. If flash doesn’t load, you can try copying the libflashplayer.so file from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so file to your flock plugins directory and using the nspluginwrapper to wrap it from that directory and copying the resulting file into the flock plugins directory using the following commands in the terminal assuming you are currently in the flock plugins directory.
cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so .
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /your-home-directory/flock/plugins/libflashplayer.so
cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so .
12. If all goes well, flash should now be running in the Flock browser.
13. If you are still have trouble getting flash to work. It may be helpful to check out my article on setting up flash on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 64 bit version.
14. If you want to create an icon for Flock, create a file called Flock.desktop in the root of your home folder and put the following in it. Replace username everywhere you see it with your username. Save the file. You can then drag the file to your taskbar next to firefox or drag it to your desktop. Put it wherever you want it.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec=”/home/username/flock/flock”
GenericName=Flock Web Browser
Icon=/home/username/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
Path=/home/username/flock/
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=username
Categories=Network;Application;
GenericName[en_US]=Flock Web Browser
If all went well, Flock should be setup and running smoothly on your 64 bit box.
KJ
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Jayson said:
I had thought about the 30 day challenge, I like the way you took the time to explain how to get Flock working I know this resource will be looked at.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:45 am
