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I tried using this browser and made a script file to run it.
The script file is attached at bottom of this post.

I can place it in the folder(directory)with the other files of the browser and it runs from there OK.

If I drag and drop it onto the desktop.

It will not run the browser.

Any ideas what is wrong??

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FlashBrowser for running flash games
https://github.com/radubirsan/FlashBrowser
Web site has a big list of flash game gallery sites, you can use in this browser to play the games.

Here is the Linux version of FlashBrowser
https://github.com/radubirsan/FlashBrow ... /tag/v0.01

I got it running in Bookworm Pup64 10.0.2

Download the https://github.com/radubirsan/FlashBrow ... ux-x64.zip

UN-compress it into a folder that contains all the files.

You can place this folder in /opt directory in the working file system.

There are two exec files that need to be given exec permission.
chrome-sandbox
FlashBrowser

With Rox file manager showing the contents of the UN-compressed folder.
Right click on each one of these files and select properties.
There you can select exec permissions
Select refresh so change is made.

Here is a script file I made that will launch FlashBrowser
Place it in the folder with the rest of the files.
Left click on it to run FlashBrowser.

It will download with no execute permission. so need to give it exec permission also.

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To use this browser.

when you run this browser it only opens a url input slot.

You place one of the game gallery url addresses in this slot and click OK.

The browser opens to the game gallery web site and you use selections on the web site to select and run the games.

the browser is very basic and is basically just a display of the game gallery web sites.

Just guessing. Flash-browser is built on electron, a major component of Chromium & Chromium-clones. These have to be run either as Spot or with the 'no-sandbox' argument. Perhaps the desktop symlink breaks whatever method the native flash-browser uses to accomplish that.

I have the script coded to run-as-spot.

Removed run-as-spot

I also tried codding it with --no-sandbox

Same issue if I place the script file on the desktop.

run-as-spot /full/path/to/your/FlashBrowser should work.

or make a symlink to FlashBrowser somewhere in the PATH (like in /usr/local/bin), then

run-as-spot FlashBrowser should be enough.

The desktop file already has that full path in it.

Does it maybe need some added execute argument command?

Burunduk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 5:07 pm

run-as-spot /full/path/to/your/FlashBrowser should work.

or make a symlink to FlashBrowser somewhere in the PATH (like in /usr/local/bin), then

run-as-spot FlashBrowser should be enough.

that should get it working

as to why run-as-spot ./FlashBrowser does not work...

./ works for the current directory, but the desktop where the link was placed is not the current directory.

should you choose not to keep your browser or a link in your path, you could modify your script

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/598 ... the-script

we cross posted and I missed your screenshot of the "edit item" dialog

The desktop file already has that full path in it.

putting the path in that dialog does not work the same as calling the executable with the full path in a terminal window

open a terminal and run $PATH

if you do not see /opt in your path maybe adding it would work, maybe not

Thanks for the ideas and giving me options to try.

open a terminal and run $PATH
if you do not see /opt in your path it could be added

/opt is not showing as one of the items in path

So maybe that is the big issue with this.

How do you add it?

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I got it to work by changing the commands in the script to this:

#!/bin/sh
exec run-as-spot /opt/FlashBrowser-linux-x64/FlashBrowser

This is the full path to the FlashBrowser execute file.

Using exec in the command to run it.

Now it can be drag and dropped to the desktop and clicked on to run FlasBrowser.

Now it can be drag and dropped to the desktop and clicked on to run FlasBrowser.

it works when /opt and your script are in the same filesystem,

should you want to keep the browser and the script in a directory outside of your install, perhaps so that you could run it in any install, then a solution like the one I posted up above could act more "universal"

I do these steps:

1. Download FlashBrowser-linux-x64.zip, extract and place in /opt so there is a /opt/FlashBrowser

2. Code: Select all

   chown -R spot:spot /opt/FlashBrowser

3. Modify the executable script /root/my-applications/bin/flashbrowser to:

   Code: Select all

   #!/bin/sh
   run-as-spot /opt/FlashBrowser/FlashBrowser
   

4. Drag the script to the desktop and assign it an icon