Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:46:12 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061206204612.GA3796@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20061206175159.GA1265@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <op.tjbxt3hjs9c57w@daniel_goldman.hsd1.md.comcast.net> <8b4c81f0611210631q3688e71bo3a8792ef79835903@mail.gmail.com> <op.tj44rq16a2sk4b@avl.oslo.opera.com> <20061206175159.GA1265@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote:
>
> Followed your instructions, put my linux-flashplugin and acroread plugin
> directories on Opera's plugin search path and... wow! everything suddenly
> started working.
I was asked off-list how I set up the plugin search path to get this stuff
working. Copying my reply here in case it's useful to anyone else:
First you'll need to have the www/linux-flashplugin7 and print/acroread7
ports installed - these obviously require the Linux emulation layer to be
installed (emulators/linux_base-fc4 port) and enabled (linux_enable="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf).
Then all I did in Opera was:
- Open the Tools -> Preferences dialog
- Switch to the "Advanced" tab then pick "Content" from the left-hand menu
- Make sure plugins are enabled
- Open the "Plug-in options" dialog
- Click on "Change path..." and add these two paths to the list:
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
/local/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/Browser/intellinux
Those are the locations of the libflashplayer.so and nppdf.so plugin
libraries - I expect the paths will be the same on your machine
- Click "OK" to get out of the plug-in path dialog
- Click "Find new" on the Plugins dialog - you should get the "Adobe Reader
7.0" and "Shockwave Flash" plugins listed now.
- OK out of all the dialogs and try browsing some sites with Flash or PDF
documents on them...
I did have both Flash and Acrobat already working with the Linux Firefox
port and partly working with native Firefox, so I wouldn't guarantee that
some of the stuff I have in /etc/libmap.conf (essentially whatever the
linuxpluginwrapper port told me to use) isn't important. I also have a
Linux /proc filesystem mounted on /compat/linux/proc - that may or may not
be important for these plugins to run, but it shouldn't hurt to have it
mounted.
Cheers,
Scott
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