Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:49:53 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> To: "Michael M. Press" <deathjestr@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD WickerBill <freebsdwicker@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1 Message-ID: <ba29b9b40701171749v30e6fb1au80a30558cbc215cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44b564930701171452s566680f7gb14c5e7e87a392eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070117175135.73481.qmail@web35311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44b564930701171452s566680f7gb14c5e7e87a392eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/17/07, Michael M. Press <deathjestr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the
> > java plugin to work with it?
> >
> .
> I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java
> plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around:
>
> cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins
> ln -s /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2
> /jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> ...should do it. Of course your libjavaplugin might be in a different
> location than mine.
>
Did I screw up my firefox big time, I see flash player plugins files
everywhere.
# find / -name flashplayer.xpt -exec ls -lrt {} \;
-r--r--r-- 1 500 100 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 42 Jan 6 16:24
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/flashplayer.xpt ->
../npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-firefox-devel/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-flock-devel/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-mozilla/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-nvu/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-opera-devel/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-seamonkey-devel/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/linux-sunbird-devel/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7/work/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 500 100 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/X11R6/lib/plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 54 Jan 6 16:20
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt ->
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt
-r--r--r-- 1 oracle wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42
/usr/home/oracle/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
#
what a mess
Is it best to delete/unistall everything fire firefox using pkg_delete and
start clean slate ? But then I went and tampered into /usr/local/lib, ran
that patch , hack.dif so many times.
Thanks
Dak
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