Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:34:03 -0400 From: Ean Kingston <ean@istop.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox Message-ID: <200604061834.03568.ean@istop.com> In-Reply-To: <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com> References: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com> <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com>
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Thanks sort of. As your previous post mentioned, you were trying to do this with firefox 1.0.7 and you couldn't get it to work with firefox 1.5. Well, I went through it anyway and still couldn't get it to work but, oddly, when I started putting the flash stuff back into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, I no longer needed to mess with the flash6.so files. So, at least it's a bit cleaner now. I think all I had to do was to link two files so that they appear in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins: flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:24, Chandan Haldar wrote: > This mail in the freebsd list archives describes what I did to get > firefox 1.0.7 and flash 6 working: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=660877+665553+/usr/local/www/db >/text/2006/freebsd-questions/20060305.freebsd-questions > > Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end). Perhaps > this will do the trick for you too. > > Good luck. > > Chandan > > Ean Kingston wrote: > >I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work > > with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying > > problems. > > > >I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it > >along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, reviewed > > the port build notes, looked for readmes, and searched some with Google. > > I found several detailed installation instructions but none of them > > worked for me. > > > >In order to get it to work, I copied flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so > >from the linux-flashplayer6 installation directory into the > > browser_plugins directory. I took this from instructions for getting an > > older flashplayer5 to work. > > > >This at least got me to an error message (about not being able to locate > >libpthreads.so. That is one of the things that linuxpluginwrapper is > > supposed to take care of. > > > >After several more attempts at trying to resolve this, I resorted to a > > brute force method. I copied the flash6.so library that came with > >linuxpluginwrapper to the browser_plugins directory as libpthreads.so. > > > >This is a very bad solution but I got flash working. > > > >So, my question is how do I get this to work properly? For any who might > > be able to help, here is some relevant info: > > > >Installed: > >firefox-1.5.0.1,1 > >linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 > >linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 > > > >messy file copies: > >flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt > >libdl.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so > >libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > >libpthread.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so > > > >So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy? > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO
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