Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:48:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade Message-ID: <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <43B4B46F.30305@ywave.com> References: <20051229220507.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <43B4B46F.30305@ywave.com>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote: > Chris Hill wrote: [snip] >> The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All >> of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them >> do. [snip] > Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0" and "Flash no longer > displayed in Firefox". Neither of those search terms yields any results, but you've given me another direction to look. I searched the archives yet again, this time on 'linuxpluginwrapper'. Found http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=751336+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions ...based on which, I did # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ This fixed things partially. A visit to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ shows that "regular" flash works, but not shockwave. Still no luck with PDFs or mplayer-plugin. Another result from my archive search was http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1310074+1313109+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions ...which revealed the existence of the WITH_PLUGINS make knob for linuxpluginwrapper, so I did tripel# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper tripel# make deinstall tripel# make -DWITH_PLUGINS reinstall ...which resulted in no change. I'm at a loss regarding the mplayer-plugin stuff. As for Acrobat, I'd bet it has something to do with the disappearance of the path /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin, but I don't know how that came to exist or why it no longer does. > It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to > make it work are described in those recent threads. Thank you for the pointer, especially for the speed of your post. > HTH, > Micah It did, a little. Thank you. But it's still vexing that all this stuff worked fine before, and that the upgrade seems to have broken it. I'm also curious why "about:plugins" shows, for example, mplayer-plugin installed for a wide variety of MIME-types, but trying to access online videos no longer starts mplayer-plugin as it did before the upgrade. My meta-question remains: Is this documented, and if so, where? -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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