Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:54:23 -0400 From: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "William O'Higgins" <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Flash, FreeBSD and Opera Message-ID: <20031105175423.134EE6F6DA@server2.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20031105140839.GA65906@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20031104102005.33143348.martin.vana@vslib.cz> <20031105140839.GA65906@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:08:39 -0500, "William O'Higgins" <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> said: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:19:07PM -0800, lists wrote: > > >I just got Flash working on FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE, so I hope this helps > >you with 5.1. > > > >First off, I'm running linux-opera from the ports. Here is the output > >from pkg_info | grep opera: linux-opera-7.11.20030515_2. > > > >Second, I installed the port for Flash, the output from pkg_inf | grep > >flash is: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 The official Macromedia Flash Player > >for Linux Mozilla and > > > >I downloaded the flash port here: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=linux-flash&stype=all&release=4.9-STABLE%2Fi386 > > > >Once the Flash player is installed, I went to my Opera plugins directory > >located at: /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins > > > >I then ran the following commands: > > > >ln -s /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt > >ln -s /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > > > >Then I started opera and all was happy. > > > I just did this, but I am unable to register the plugin in Opera. I am > using FreeBSD 4.8 and Opera 7.21. > > I am not sure if this is a problem, but this is the output of pkg_info | > grep opera: > > linux-opera-6.12.20030305 A blazingly fast, full-featured, > standards-compliant browse > opera-6.12.20030305 A blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant > browse > opera-7.21.20031013 A blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant > browse > > I have set the synlinks in the plugins directory, and since that didn't > work I also added /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/ to the plugin path, > to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions? Native and Linux Opera behave differently with respect to plugins IME. That is, the former doesn't work with them, the latter does. pkg_delete your various Opera versions, then install linux-opera from ports. Jud
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