Facebook Photo Upload

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I put Mint on an old laptop recently, which the OH uses, but for uploading photos to FB you need to download some manner of plugin, otherwise FB won't let you upload photos.

The Plugin downloads fine, can someone tell me what to do next?

I have a folder called "Desktop Downloads", in which there is another folder, which I downloaded, called "FacebookPlugin-1.0.3"

In this folder are various files, one of which is called "FacebookPlugin_install_sh", when I click into this it opens up a notepad kind of thing, with some code.

There is also a readme, but I don't undertsand what it says.

Thanks for any help

Stuxnet

put the tar file into your documents folder

then in terminal

cd Documents
tar zxf FacebookPlugIn-1.0.3.tar.gz
cd FacebookPlugIn-1.0.3
sudo chmod a+x FacebookPlugIn_Install.sh
sh FacebookPlugIn_Install.sh

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Cheers, I'll give it a bash.

Eliot Rosewater

Des wrote: »

Cheers, I'll give it a bash.

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didn't work, FB is still asking me to install the plugin when I try to add photos

Sid_Justice

can you switch to simple upload ?

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Sid_Justice wrote: »

can you switch to simple upload ?

Yep, it's just the mrs is giving me stick, ffs like, the laptop wasn't booting at all so I installed Mint for her and it's working like a dream, apart from this, and she's giving out again. :rolleyes::pac:

Stuxnet

eta: checked around the webs, this plugin doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu 9.10 which is what you have i imagine, your not running the 10.04 beta ?
anyhow most recommend using this Firefox addon, works a treat http://www.fireuploader.com/ click the little F icon bottom right when installed, add her facebook info, bobs your uncle etc !!

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 have no problem uploading to FB, hold out till may, Mint 9 will be out, it should work out of the box then

Eliot Rosewater

For what it's worth, I couldn't get this to work either. The enclosed shell script simply moves the plugin to your firefox plugin folder. I ran the script and it did move the plugin correctly, however when I restarted my computer the plugin hadn't been detected.

Ubuntu 9.04 myself.

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Yeah, from looking around the web it seems to just not work.

Oh, when the new Mint comes out will it have to be a re-install or does it update itself.

What about keeping files/photos/music etc?

Mathiasb

Uhm. The "plugin" is Java, isn't it? Just install a jre.

Stuxnet

Des wrote: »

Yeah, from looking around the web it seems to just not work.

Oh, when the new Mint comes out will it have to be a re-install or does it update itself.

What about keeping files/photos/music etc?

personally, i backup my important files and re-install from scratch, takes 10/15 mins
you can upgrade but will take 2hours+

Eliot Rosewater

I've Ubuntu installed on two partitions, one for the main OS files and the other for my /home folder. I re-install on another partition, and then point the new /home to the old one in the fstab (?) file. It carries through all my settings. It's far from a perfect system, but it does save backing up.

Updates are fine too, but sometimes they can go wrong. I'd say update first, and only re-install if you experience performance issues.

Sherifu

Des wrote: »

Yeah, from looking around the web it seems to just not work.

Oh, when the new Mint comes out will it have to be a re-install or does it update itself.

What about keeping files/photos/music etc?

I usually upgrade but i'd backup anything important beforehand. The upgrade tool usually appears shortly before or after the main release.

loldog

Right, I tried in in Ubuntu 10.04, it worked seamlessly, all done through the Facebook page. It needs Sun Java installed, so make sure you have Sun Java 6.0 Plugin installed - which you can do in the Software Center.

I also have the Iced Tea plugin and OpenJDK Java Runtime and Sun JRE Runtime, might be no harm to have them installed though I don't know if they're needed.

The point of Ubuntu is that it should all "just work" and I'm impressed that it worked seamlessly in 10.04. That's real progress.

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Mathiasb

loldog wrote: »

Right, I tried in in Ubuntu 10.04, it worked seamlessly, all done through the Facebook page. It needs Sun Java installed, so make sure you have Sun Java 6.0 Plugin installed - which you can do in the Software Center.

I also have the Iced Tea plugin and OpenJDK Java Runtime and Sun JRE Runtime, might be no harm to have them installed though I don't know if they're needed.

The point of Ubuntu is that it should all "just work" and I'm impressed that it worked seamlessly in 10.04. That's real progress.

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As mentioned in a previous post, just install a jre and it works. I don't think Ubuntu ships with Sun's jre ootb because of the license.

pickarooney

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

I've Ubuntu installed on two partitions, one for the main OS files and the other for my /home folder. I re-install on another partition, and then point the new /home to the old one in the fstab (?) file. It carries through all my settings. It's far from a perfect system, but it does save backing up.

Updates are fine too, but sometimes they can go wrong. I'd say update first, and only re-install if you experience performance issues.

That seems unnecessarily complicated. I have 4 partitions, 2 for data, 1 for /home and /. I just format / and reinstall, choosing the relevant locations to mount /home and the data partitions during install.

Then run a shell script to install all the extra programs I need in one go.

Eliot Rosewater

pickarooney wrote: »

That seems unnecessarily complicated. I have 4 partitions, 2 for data, 1 for /home and /...

I also have two data partitions, readable by Windows. The reason I don't just wipe "/" is in case the install goes bad. I've about 10 partitions on my PC anyway: Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, two Ubuntus, Windows XP, swap and a few data one. I got a bit exited with gparted a few months back!

pickarooney wrote: »

Then run a shell script to install all the extra programs I need in one go.

Good tactic.

The biggest obstacle for me in a reinstall is setting up my Apache server, something I can't easily automate in a shell script as it requires a bit of config file editing.

Mathiasb

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

I also have two data partitions, readable by Windows. The reason I don't just wipe "/" is in case the install goes bad. I've about 10 partitions on my PC anyway: Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, two Ubuntus, Windows XP, swap and a few data one. I got a bit exited with gparted a few months back!



Good tactic.

The biggest obstacle for me in a reinstall is setting up my Apache server, something I can't easily automate in a shell script as it requires a bit of config file editing.

Save the config file?

Eliot Rosewater

I plan to do that this time. :pac:

Previously I've changed my settings with every install. For example since my last reinstall my server files now reside at /home/server - independent of the OS install.

Now changing the default MySQL folder is something I could never do.

MrVestek

Mathiasb wrote: »

Uhm. The "plugin" is Java, isn't it? Just install a jre.

Yeah I thought that the facebook uploader was just a Java applet too.

As this man says install a java run time and it should run fine.

dregin

Fspot has a facebook extension for uploading photos which I find is actually better that facebook's browser plugin.

MrVestek

dregin wrote: »

Fspot has a facebook extension for uploading photos which I find is actually better that facebook's browser plugin.

I didn't realise that. Good to know!

pickarooney

Does anyone know if the picasauploader facebook app is linux compatible?

I haven't tried this, but it sounds like it might be useful:
http://geek2live.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-use-picasa-to-upload-photos-to.html

Assuming you have or want to have picasa installed of course.

Otherwise, downlaod and hack this? Chicks dig the command line, I'm prety sure.

Mathiasb

I recommend http://antaki.ca/bloom/ .

Bloom is a multi platform desktop app that let you upload your photos and videos easily and efficiently to Facebook, download albums and view your friends' photos. You can upload photos to a new or an existing album, you can tag them and you can view your friends photos.

Screenshots

MrVestek

That program doesn't have native linux support.

Mathiasb

Achilles wrote: »

That program doesn't have native linux support.

But it works.

MrVestek

Mathiasb wrote: »

But it works.

Fair enough I guess I just prefer my programs working natively and not hampered by running a java program.