From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 13:59:23 2006 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 88C3716A403 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:59:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9F643D4C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k8JDxKmc021157; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:59:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <73d604760609160803y5617c3b1i5a72ee48413b3843@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609190959.20149.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.3, clamav-milter version 0.88.3 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Bill-Schoolcraft Subject: Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:59:23 -0000 On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: > At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: > > I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. > > Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the > > plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin > > in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it > > to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so > > file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again > > and enjoy the world of flash > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hello Family, > > I'm running 6.1, installed "linux-opera" from ports in order to test > the above, and the ports install seemed to go fine but I got this > error when trying to start Opera, anyone seen this before? > > ########################################## > > [wiliweld@lifebook ~]$ /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera > > opera: Preference initialization failure. File not found or could > not be opened (-7) > > ########################################## Why are you trying to run it that way? What happens if you just type "linux-opera" from an xterm? (/usr/local/bin/linux-opera on my machine). JN