Difference between revisions of "Hulu Fix"

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August 24th, 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.
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== History ==
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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.
  
August 26th, 2011 this is now '''an installable patch''' within the WebOS-Internals patch feed using Preware.
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On August 26, 2011, this is now '''an installable patch''' within the WebOS-Internals patch feed using Preware.
  
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== Install with webOS Quick Install ==
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Open webOS Quick Install.
  
== Install with WOSQI ==
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Go to tools and then Linux Commandline.
-Open webOS Quick Install
 
  
-Go to tools, then Linux Commandline
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Copy, paste, and enter each line separately:
 
 
Copy/paste/enter each line separately:
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
cd /
 
cd /
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== Install with Terminus/Putty/Novacom ==
 
== Install with Terminus/Putty/Novacom ==
 
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Copy, paste, and enter each line separately:
Copy/paste/enter each line separately:
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
cd /
 
cd /
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</nowiki></pre>
 
</nowiki></pre>
  
 
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== Undo your changes ==
== Undo Your Changes ==
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Copy and paste the following into webOS Quick Install's Linux Commandline or your Terminus/Putty/Novacom terminal:
Copy and paste the following into webOS Quick Install's Linux Commandline, or your Terminus/Putty/Novacom terminal:
 
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
<pre><nowiki>
 
cd /
 
cd /

Latest revision as of 06:57, 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