Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:23:37 -0800 From: Joseph Vella <vayu@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Why did this work? (Flashplugin) Message-ID: <200602230023.37245.vayu@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420602230009o1f997be0p712950b74f9704c1@mail.gmail.com> References: <200602222126.20745.vayua@sklinks.com> <cb5206420602230009o1f997be0p712950b74f9704c1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:09 am, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 2/23/06, Vayu <vayua@sklinks.com> wrote: > > I installed linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin-6 and linux_base-8 through > > ports. No errors. Created a libmap.conf with values appropriate for 6.0REL. > > > > I followed the same procedure that I did 3 weeks ago that successfully got > > flash playing in Konqueror on another FreeBSD 6.0REL machine. > > > > Neither Konqueror nor Firefox would acknowledge flash (wouldn't play it, > > didn't show it in about:plugins, nor give any errors when called from the > > command line). I deinstalled, reinstalled, I looked up each lib referenced > > in the libmap. > > > > Finally I made a link from the libflashplayer.so > > in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 directory > > to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins. That worked for Firefox (1.5) but not > > for Konqueror. > > > > Why did that work (what went wrong in my installation) and now what do I do to > > get Flash playing in Konqueror? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > > Try making a link in a konqueror-specific plugins dir. > _______________________________________________ > 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, I got it to work by going in the settings for Konqueror and clicking a button to rescan plugins. I still don't understand why that link was needed.
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