From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 4 18:30:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F363F106564A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (kontrol.kode5.net [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE1D8FC0C for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q94IU2F7071512 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:30:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q94IU22H071511 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:30:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kontrol.kode5.net: jamie set sender to jamie@kode5.net using -f Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:30:02 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20121004183002.GB70000@kontrol.kode5.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20121001143321.461de2b2@scorpio> <506A9E3E.1020209@gmail.com> <506D8F5E.2020800@freebsdnorth.com> <20121004110258.3a188bdb@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121004110258.3a188bdb@scorpio> x-operating-system: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 x-pgp-fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38 x-pgp-key: 1D31DC38 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at kontrol.kode5.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: flashplugin 11.2r202.238 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:30:17 -0000 [ Jerry wrote on Thu 4.Oct'12 at 11:02:58 -0400 ] > On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:30:06 -0800 > Beech Rintoul articulated: > > > On 10/1/2012 11:56 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > > 01.10.2012 21:33, Jerry wrote: > > >> I just finished installing "linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238". > > >> For some inexplicable reason, it is no longer working. I followed > > >> the directions in "UPDATING" but without success. I even cleared > > >> out the entries in the "~/.mozilla/plugins" directory and reran > > >> the command without results. In fact, now nothing is listed in the > > >> directory and flash still doesn't work. Every time I reach a page > > >> that requires flash, I am greeted with a message telling me I need > > >> to download and install it. > > > > > > Could you please rerun nspluginwrapper -v -a -i? Is there anything > > > in the system log? > > > > I ran into the same problem. Tried for two days to get flash working > > on a client's FreeBSD box. No go. I finally just copied > > npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into .mozilla/plugins, firefox found it > > and now all works fine. seems nspluginwrapper -v -a -i is not > > populating .mozilla/plugins. > > Did you check the info at: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html > > In particular, I ran into a problem with creating the link. I received > an error message stating the link existed; however, even if it did it > was not working correctly. I corrected it with this: > > ln -s -F /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ > > I then ran: "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" and all is well, or at least as > well as can be expected with Flash and FreeBSD. Not exactly a marriage > made in heaven. Yes, it is a bit of a PITA isn't it. I wish flashplayer could be replaced be something better that works on UNIX and all platforms for that matter. Maybe HTML 5 will enable people to do without this crap.