From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 09:54:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7225C16A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D87643FDD for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AA53C5696; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:54:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 134EE6F6DA; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:54:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "William O'Higgins" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:54:23 -0400 X-Sasl-Enc: bRQcfkCNCCAsA2XpHyDGWQ 1068054863 References: <20031104102005.33143348.martin.vana@vslib.cz> <20031105140839.GA65906@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20031105140839.GA65906@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> Message-Id: <20031105175423.134EE6F6DA@server2.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: Flash, FreeBSD and Opera X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:54:27 -0000 On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:08:39 -0500, "William O'Higgins" said: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:19:07PM -0800, lists wrote: > > >I just got Flash working on FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE, so I hope this helps > >you with 5.1. > > > >First off, I'm running linux-opera from the ports. Here is the output > >from pkg_info | grep opera: linux-opera-7.11.20030515_2. > > > >Second, I installed the port for Flash, the output from pkg_inf | grep > >flash is: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 The official Macromedia Flash Player > >for Linux Mozilla and > > > >I downloaded the flash port here: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=linux-flash&stype=all&release=4.9-STABLE%2Fi386 > > > >Once the Flash player is installed, I went to my Opera plugins directory > >located at: /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins > > > >I then ran the following commands: > > > >ln -s /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt > >ln -s /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > > > >Then I started opera and all was happy. > > > I just did this, but I am unable to register the plugin in Opera. I am > using FreeBSD 4.8 and Opera 7.21. > > I am not sure if this is a problem, but this is the output of pkg_info | > grep opera: > > linux-opera-6.12.20030305 A blazingly fast, full-featured, > standards-compliant browse > opera-6.12.20030305 A blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant > browse > opera-7.21.20031013 A blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant > browse > > I have set the synlinks in the plugins directory, and since that didn't > work I also added /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/ to the plugin path, > to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions? Native and Linux Opera behave differently with respect to plugins IME. That is, the former doesn't work with them, the latter does. pkg_delete your various Opera versions, then install linux-opera from ports. Jud