Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:31:35 +0300 From: Vladimir Tsvetkov <npacemo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems Message-ID: <666bdb140510020731n99525cx@mail.gmail.com>
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I did everything like it was described in the how-to's about
installing plugins for native Firefox on FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 4.9
Release, which at this moment is unsupported.
1. Install firefox:
# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make install clean
2. Install linuxpluginwrapper:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=3Dyes install clean
I use WITHOUT_PLUGINS=3Dyes, because I don't need acroread7 - I have
acroread5 and it perfectly fits my needs.
I got the following message:
Please enable libmap.conf(5) feature for rtld(1).
4-stable user:
You can get a following patch.
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff
Please apply on /usr/src and make install on /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf:
# cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff
# cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install
5.1-RELEASE user:
Please see /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper.
3. Patching:
I've downloaded the patch:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff and than I tried
to apply it:
# cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff
I got the following message:
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -urN libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile
|--- libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile Sun Jun 23 06:32:35 2002
|+++ libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile Wed Oct 8 02:50:10 2003
--------------------------
File to patch:
Obviously, I don't have /usr/src/libexec sources installed.
4. Install the libexec sources:
I put the FreeBSD 4.9 Release installation CD in the CD-ROM.
# /stand/sysinstall
Configure->Distributions->src->libexec
5. Patch again:
# cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 < /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff
# cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install
This now works.
6. Another try to install linuxpluginwrapper:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=3Dyes install clean
No problems at all.
7. Install linux-flashplugin6:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6
# make install clean
No problems at all.
8. Editing /etc/libmap.conf:
# /etc/libmap.conf for FreeBSD 4.x
# Flash6 with Mozilla Firefox
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libz.so.1 libz.so.2
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.3
libm.so.6 libm.so.2
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
# Acrobat5 with Mozilla Firefox
[/usr/X11R6/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so]
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so
# Helix RealPlayer with Mozilla Firefox
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so]
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.3
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/realplayer.so
I've checked every single Shared Object that is listed in my /etc/libmap.co=
nf.
But there are no indications at all, that Firefox is using the
installed plugins. Still Firefox continues to inform me about missing
plugins.
I tried also, to configure Konqueror (3.1.4) to use the new plugins:
Settings->Configure Konqueror..->Plugins->Scan for new plugins
And I got the following error message:
"The nspluginscan executable cannot be found. Netscape plugins will
not be scanned."
I searched the web for this problem and I found this on the
freebsd-questions maillist:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053298.html
>You have to compile /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 with motif support. Run
>'make config' to change that option, then recompile and install it.
I tried this, but the message above is outdated (Thu Jul 22 02:13:13
PDT 2004). Currently in the configuration of the kdebase3 port there
is only one option:
[X] Suid wrapper for aRts, req'd for realtime prio
I am aware that the version of FreeBSD that I use is no longer
supported, but is there any way to workaround the necessity of moving
to 4Stable, and to get a working plugins for the Firefox browser?
Best Regards,
Vladimir Tsvetkov
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