Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:51:43 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade Message-ID: <200601031451.47588.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43BB0489.3000709@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> References: <20051229220507.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <20051230193924.I81852@tripel.monochrome.org> <43BB0489.3000709@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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--Boundary_(ID_pybDhFad4tlBKJ93qpO8eQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:11 pm, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Chris Hill wrote: > > This led me to > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107925 > >.html > > > > ...which was exactly what I was looking for. > > > >> For acroread make sure you rename /usr/local/bin/acroread7 > >> to /usr/local/bin/acroread. > > > > Beech, > > > > Thank you that, and especially thank you for writing the "107925" post > > referred to above. Your procedure worked beautifully. > > Did the 107925 post work for you? it was superceded by > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107927.h >tml which corrected a typo, specifically > > rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins > > (possibly wrapped) was replaced by > > rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins > > I used the second and it worked. I can't see how the first would work > (but that doesn't mean much :). That was a typo, I attached the text file. Sorry about that. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --Boundary_(ID_pybDhFad4tlBKJ93qpO8eQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=wrapper_how_to.txt Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: attachment; filename=wrapper_how_to.txt ## Workaround for broken port linuxpluginwrapper. ## Beech Rintoul - akbeech@gmail.com ## Before building linuxpluginwrapper: rm -R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins ## Build linuxpluginwrapper: cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make -DWITH_PLUGINS install clean ## or upgrade: portupgrade -vm -DWITH_PLUGINS linuxpluginwrapper ## Remove symlink (Will break Mozilla). rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins ## Fix acroread: rm -rf /usr/local/bin/acroread # If upgrade. mv =A0/usr/local/bin/acroread7 /usr/local/bin/acroread rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nppdf.so ln -s /usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinu= x/nppdf.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nppdf.so ## Change path to nppdf.so in /etc/libmap.conf: # Acrobat7 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror [/usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppd= f.so]=20 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so ## Note: ## Acroread now works properly in browser. ## Helix plugin does not work with Firefox or Mozilla at this time.=20 ## Flash 6.0 works without modification. ## Flash7 is VERY unstable and will crash Firefox (possibly Mozilla). ## Launch browser and type "about:plugins" without the quotes to check that= plugins are enabled.= --Boundary_(ID_pybDhFad4tlBKJ93qpO8eQ)--
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