Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade Message-ID: <43B588E2.4000600@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20051229220507.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <43B4B46F.30305@ywave.com> <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org>
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Chris Hill wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote: > >> Chris Hill wrote: > > > [snip] > >>> The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All >>> of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them do. > > > [snip] > >> Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0" and "Flash no >> longer displayed in Firefox". > > > Neither of those search terms yields any results, but you've given me > another direction to look. I searched the archives yet again, this time > on 'linuxpluginwrapper'. Found > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=751336+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions > > > ...based on which, I did > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ > > This fixed things partially. A visit to > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ > shows that "regular" flash works, but not shockwave. > > Still no luck with PDFs or mplayer-plugin. > > Another result from my archive search was > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1310074+1313109+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions > ...which revealed the existence of the WITH_PLUGINS make knob for > linuxpluginwrapper, so I did > tripel# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper > tripel# make deinstall > tripel# make -DWITH_PLUGINS reinstall > > ...which resulted in no change. > > I'm at a loss regarding the mplayer-plugin stuff. As for Acrobat, I'd > bet it has something to do with the disappearance of the path > /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin, but > I don't know how that came to exist or why it no longer does. > >> It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to >> make it work are described in those recent threads. > > > Thank you for the pointer, especially for the speed of your post. > >> HTH, >> Micah > > > It did, a little. Thank you. > > But it's still vexing that all this stuff worked fine before, and that > the upgrade seems to have broken it. I'm also curious why > "about:plugins" shows, for example, mplayer-plugin installed for a wide > variety of MIME-types, but trying to access online videos no longer > starts mplayer-plugin as it did before the upgrade. > > My meta-question remains: Is this documented, and if so, where? > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] The mailman search interface is screwed up, and the FreeBSD search engine and Google haven't indexed recent threads yet. A look through December's archives would've turned these up. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107922.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107098.html HTH, Micah
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