Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:21:16 -0900 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash no longer displayed in Firefox Message-ID: <200512101421.30240.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051210171021.b70cdd07.dick@nagual.st> References: <439AB1A1.6030508@wanadoo.fr> <200512100636.29031.ringworm01@gmail.com> <20051210171021.b70cdd07.dick@nagual.st>
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--nextPart9989002.LLeB4PYRuR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:10 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:36:28 -0800 > > "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> 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= =20 the symlink was so plugins would install in the proper directory and save=20 several steps in having to move them. Seems the proper thing would be to ju= st=20 remove the symlink after installing pluginwrapper. In a perfect world that= =20 port would just be patched to do the right install (including paths), but=20 that is beyond my programming abilities. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart9989002.LLeB4PYRuR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDm2L6Vq19LUoGB+MRAm38AJ45ieR6DrCFc0JyvcW3BZzw5+rgHACdEi0A RFMs85aCSMy5rKXLeeMqryo= =sXy9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9989002.LLeB4PYRuR--
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