Installing Flock on Ubuntu 9.10

As you all know Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was released today. I upgraded my beta release to the latest and greatest and really wanted to install the Flock Web Browser. I have used Flock before on Windows and really liked it, and figured if I want to lose Microsoft all together I need to figure out how to install it.

After searching through Forums for a while and not getting anywhere following other instructions step-by-step, I decided to make my own guide on getting Flock installed on your Ubuntu PC. Its easy enough to do and no, I am not a Linux expert in any way… so rest assured, even beginners will be able to do it!

  1. Download the latest version of Flock from Flock.com
  2. Copy the downloaded file into your /home directory (/home/yourusername)
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  3. Right click on flock-*.linux-i686.tar.bz2 file and click Extract Here.
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  4. Close out of any open windows and right click on the desktop, select Create Launcher
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  5. Fill in the name field and click the Browse button; Browse to /home/yourusername/flock/flock-browser (click on flock-browser)
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  6. To customize the Icon open up a File Browser window and navigate to /home/yourusername/flock/icons/ and drag & drop mozicon128.png to the spring  (see highlight in image below)
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  7. Its that simple, you should now have a desktop Icon that launches Flock; Enjoy!
    Screenshot_flock flock_browser

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3 Responses to “Installing Flock on Ubuntu 9.10”

  1. Su Smith Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    Thanks for the super easy tutorial. I was able to get flash going by downloading the tar.gz and copying the libflashplayer.so to /home/yourusername/flock/plugins.

    I’m not sure if this is the right way to do it, but it did the trick!


  2. Su Smith Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Oh, another little thing I might add for other users that read this tutorial:

    System>Preferences>Main Menu>Internet>New Item will add the launcher to the internet category in the applications menu.

    I just followed above instructions for creating a desktop entry and applied it to the menu option.

    Thanks again! :)


  3. changturtle Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    http://www.getdeb.net/updates/#how_to_install%C2%A0

    Go to System-Administration-Software Sources, Third-Party Software tab, Add:

    deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb apps

    Add the repository GPG key, open a terminal window and type:

    $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add –

    $ sudo apt-get install flock

    Modify flashplayer-plugins in flock

    $ sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-install/libflashplayer.so /usr/share/flock/plugins

    /usr/share/flock/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    Good luck !

    changturtle


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