Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:25:17 -0300 From: ballona <rcbballona@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted: Flash player for <browser_of_choice>.... Message-ID: <445217BD.50908@gmail.com>
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Hi, I've found this topic another day and today I've subscribed to this list in order to post this message that I hope could be helpful to someone. I've recentely managed to make linux-firefox ports to install flashplayer automatically (i.e. without relying on www/flashplugin ports) on freebsd (which I've never managed to do before). Even better, it's installed version 7 or flashplayer which I've almost never managed to run with firefox ports. I'm not a lawyer too but as flashplayer was not installed via ports and as it was firefox itself that fetch, downloaded and installed it, I think it's technically running under firefox regardless wherever firefox is running on. But that's only my guess... I'll described what happened so that anyone that want, can try and make it work to. I don't know exactely what make it work as I've tried it before without success. That's why I will explain the steps I took but I don't know which ones are relevant to the result I've achieved. 1) I run fredbsd current 7. 2) I always have firefox and flashplugin ports installed on my system and by adjusting /etc/libmap.conf I had success on displaying pages with flash contents, although I've always have problems when I installed newer versions of firefox or flashplugin. After such updates it was common that firefox crash when it find flash content and sometimes I wasn't able to fix it. The last time it happened I've only managed to avoid it to crash when it find flash content, but it didn't show any flash content in the page but only a frame where flash contend should be. 3) Tired of fixing these problems I tried to install linux-firefox that I've heard that would have better results. It really has, because after install, it played flash contents without any other adjustments. I think linux-firefox continue to rely on www/flashplayer ports to play flash contents but it seems to do it better. I noticed that it used flashplayer version 6, the same that I used to use with firefox ports. Now I had firefox and linux-firefox installed at the same time in my system and the nice thing was that bookmarks, extensions and etc were shared by both. 4) Recentelly during a ports update, portupgrade advise that flashplugin would be deinstallled as a license problem was identified. I've accepted it and it was automatically deinstalled. 5) After that when I use firefox, it started to crash again when it finds any flash content in a page and I realized it was because flashplugin have been deinstalled (at that time I wasn't aware of the HOLD_PKGS =['linuxpluginwrapper*' option to prevent it of being deinstalled and after deinstalled it didn't help to have it and try to install flashplugin again). 6) Then I tried to run linux-firefox. It hasn't crashed when it finds flash contents but couldn't play it too. But instead of crashing it showed an upper bar saying that a plugin is missing and ask if it can try to fetch and install it for me. I've said yes but unfortunately it's said it couldn't find an appropriate plugin and that I had to do it manually. 7) After that I've gave up and try to find anyone with the same problem in any forum. Then I've found this thread "Re: Wanted: Flash player for <browser_of_choice>...." with interesting information about the subject but aparentely without any real solution, apart from asking adobe for a native version or a change in license. 8) Then I found someone saying that have tried gnash (GNU Flash movie player) without success either but that it could be a viable alternative. 9) So I tried to install gnash with the following command: sudo portupgrade -R -r -N -i gnash 10) Then I realized that it was better to gave it the "WITH_FIREFOX=yes" option and so I did: sudo vi /usr/ports/graphics/gnash/Makefile and included that option there (I don't know it there is a better way to ddo that) running the installation again with the command: sudo portupgrade -R -r -N -i -f gnash. This time it asked me where was the firefox binary and I pointed it to the linux-firefox binary that had installed in my system. 11) After that I tried to run linux-firefox again in a page with flash contents. And again it doesn't show any flash content but only the upper bar saying a plugin is missing. 12) I then tried to find any evidence that linux-firefox was aware of gnash in any way by inspecting about, tools menu, extensions etc, but without success. 13) Finally I clicked in the upper bar so that linux-firefox could try again to fetch and install flashplugin by itself. I was surprised when the progress bar start to move saying it has been found and was being installed. It finished successfully and after that linux-firefox started to show flash contents correctely and and when I right click in any flash contents I realized that it was flashplayer 7 that was running. I don't know what has changed to make it be able to install flashplugin automatically but maybe it can help someone with thee same problem. Thanks, ballona
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