Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:08:07 -0600 From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opera, Flash and the stench of failure... Message-ID: <20080119190807.2e130460@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <64c038660801040516u5c42a6cpadb475ad67fb4730@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660801040516u5c42a6cpadb475ad67fb4730@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:16:59 -0700 Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: > Seeing the thread about flash with mozilla, I thought, "a flash > plugin with opera would be cool." Last night I tried to get flash > working with opera. I failed. With native opera, I cannot get any > plugins to work. Here is what I know: > > 1. What opera bitches about: > Could not start operapluginwrapper. > Plugins will not work correctly. > > 2. Why opera bitches: > ldd operapluginwrapper; > ... > libXThrStub.so.6 => not found (0x0) > ... > > 3. Why it is missing: > "On OpenBSD, and on old FreeBSD, libc lacks pthread stubs. > This is a problem because libX11 needs to support threading, > but shouldn't cause all X programs to be linked against the > threading library. The solution is libXThrStub (UIThrStubs.c), > which provides weak symbols to stub threading functions, > which are ignored if the application links against the thread > library. I had moved libXThrStub into libX11, because it > seemed unnecessary." > > 4. What I have installed: > linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin > opera-9.25.20071214 A blazingly fast, full-featured, > standards-compliant browse > opera-linuxplugins-9.21.20070510_1 Linux plugin support for the > native Opera browser > > Does anyone have flash working with opera? If so, how? Where can I > get libXThrStub.so.6? My suggestion is to check out 'graphics/gnash'. That port works surprisingly well for part these days.
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