From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 10 23:41:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0E616A4C4 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:41:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF2B43D8C for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:41:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so1201930nzi for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:41:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=UJkJaN3cYrHjSvuNNflANraH+xnamdtn8LSJnYjIS8whWRiDDopG1JG+s5VDBMczndgVRdh7Oz/kjOEQjqp1vE2uv0YA/RtRBV1tPXRxi8t5EYIHZLskLUiwfh4f/rKXsObTRZJGoSoQLyh8o9m3EqmNMw7vR7tc9kIYQk82+gY= Received: by 10.36.251.49 with SMTP id y49mr4710810nzh; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id c12sm6946960nzc.2005.12.10.15.41.27; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:41:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:41:23 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <439AB1A1.6030508@wanadoo.fr> <20051210171021.b70cdd07.dick@nagual.st> <200512101421.30240.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512101421.30240.akbeech@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512101541.24213.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: Beecher Rintoul Subject: Re: Flash no longer displayed in Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:41:45 -0000 On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:21, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:10 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:36:28 -0800 > > > > "Michael C. Shultz" wrote: > > > Good information! To automate this with portmanager you can add > > > the following two lines to pm-020.conf: > > > > > > #below must be on one line > > > STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm > > > STOP|-R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln > > > -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| > > > > YEAH, the information is good, except for the symlinked browser_plugins. > > You should not do this. That is, when I'd done this this week, mozilla > > wouldn't start anymore. Error 76 on X. It stook me quite some time to > > find out that the symlinked plugins dir was to blame. I removed the > > browser_linux_plugins and mozilla worked again. All plugins just are in > > browser_plugins. Having a REAL browser_linux_plugin dir does not harm > > the system. > > I'm running Firefox and don't have Mozilla on any of my boxes. The idea for > the symlink was so plugins would install in the proper directory and save > several steps in having to move them. Seems the proper thing would be to > just remove the symlink after installing pluginwrapper. In a perfect world > that port would just be patched to do the right install (including paths), > but that is beyond my programming abilities. > > Beech www/linuxpluginwrapper has a maintainer so I won't waste time trying to get it fixed but using the example provided earlier plus one more line #below must be on one line STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm -R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| #second line www/linuxpluginwrapper|WITH_PLUGINS=1| #third line START|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| Would make the link prior to installation, at installation time libs go to the right place and after installation the link is removed... -Mike