Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:29:56 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash Player Message-ID: <440E79E4.50905@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <440E7808.2050502@chrismaness.com> References: <list.freebsd.questions#list.freebsd.questions#440C89DB.1060404@comcast.net> <list.freebsd.questions#200603062341.04455.satyam@sklinks.com> <440E6A0D.9050209@chrismaness.com> <200603072210.08139.satyam@sklinks.com> <440E7743.1080708@comcast.net> <440E7808.2050502@chrismaness.com>
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Chris Maness wrote: > Rem P Roberti wrote: >> Joseph Vella wrote: >>> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: >>> >>>> Joseph Vella wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I installed these ports. Is there >>>>>>> anything I need to do to the browser >>>>>>> to get it to recognize them, because >>>>>>> flash is still not working. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that for >>>>>> firefox you want to make a symbolic >>>>>> link from >>>>>> >>>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so >>>>>> >>>>>> to >>>>>> >>>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so >>>>>> >>>>>> and from >>>>>> >>>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt >>>>>> >>>>>> to >>>>>> >>>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so >>>>>> >>>>>> (Shamelessly copied from a previous >>>>>> post :) >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> >>>>> There's a typo in the last link: it should be >>>>> from >>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt >>>>> to >>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt >>>>> >>>>> I put my links into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins instead of >>>>> firefox/plugins and I'm then able to view flash in konqueror as >>>>> well as >>>>> firefox. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Also I had to create a file named /etc/libmap.conf with the >>>>> following in >>>>> it: >>>>> >>>>> # Flash6 with Konqueror >>>>> [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] >>>>> libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so >>>>> libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so >>>>> libz.so.1 libz.so.3 >>>>> libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.5 >>>>> libm.so.6 libm.so.4 >>>>> libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>> >>>> Thanks, that worked for firefox. It didn't seem to work for Konqurer >>>> (but don't really use it anyway). >>>> >>> >>> Oh yeah, I also had to go into the settings for konqueror and click >>> a button something like "scan for plugins", after that, flash in >>> Konqueror worked too. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Boy, I did all of the above, and I still can't get Firefox to work >> with Flash Player. What to do...what to do. >> >> Rem > Make sure you do: > > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so > > as well. > > > Yep, all the sylinks are correctly in place. Rem
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