From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 6 22:31:12 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 C612916A404 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:31:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ean@istop.com) Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BED043D45 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:31:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@istop.com) Received: from [192.168.89.13] (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55D15833; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ean Kingston To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:34:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com> <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604061834.03568.ean@istop.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox 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: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:31:12 -0000 Thanks sort of. As your previous post mentioned, you were trying to do this with firefox 1.0.7 and you couldn't get it to work with firefox 1.5. Well, I went through it anyway and still couldn't get it to work but, oddly, when I started putting the flash stuff back into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, I no longer needed to mess with the flash6.so files. So, at least it's a bit cleaner now. I think all I had to do was to link two files so that they appear in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins: flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:24, Chandan Haldar wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO