Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:54:50 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> To: Ean Kingston <ean@istop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox Message-ID: <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com> References: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com>
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This mail in the freebsd list archives describes what I did to get firefox 1.0.7 and flash 6 working: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=660877+665553+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-questions/20060305.freebsd-questions Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end). Perhaps this will do the trick for you too. Good luck. Chandan Ean Kingston wrote: >I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work with >native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying problems. > >I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it >along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, reviewed the >port build notes, looked for readmes, and searched some with Google. I found >several detailed installation instructions but none of them worked for me. > >In order to get it to work, I copied flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so >from the linux-flashplayer6 installation directory into the browser_plugins >directory. I took this from instructions for getting an older flashplayer5 to >work. > >This at least got me to an error message (about not being able to locate >libpthreads.so. That is one of the things that linuxpluginwrapper is supposed >to take care of. > >After several more attempts at trying to resolve this, I resorted to a brute >force method. I copied the flash6.so library that came with >linuxpluginwrapper to the browser_plugins directory as libpthreads.so. > >This is a very bad solution but I got flash working. > >So, my question is how do I get this to work properly? For any who might be >able to help, here is some relevant info: > >Installed: >firefox-1.5.0.1,1 >linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 >linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 > >messy file copies: >flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt >libdl.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so >libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so >libpthread.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so > >So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy? > > >
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