Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:10:07 -0800 From: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Subject: Re: Flash Player Message-ID: <200603072210.08139.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <440E6A0D.9050209@chrismaness.com> References: <list.freebsd.questions#list.freebsd.questions#440C89DB.1060404@comcast.net> <list.freebsd.questions#200603062341.04455.satyam@sklinks.com> <440E6A0D.9050209@chrismaness.com>
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On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote: > Joseph Vella wrote: > > On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote: > >> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris > >> > >>> I installed these ports. Is there > >>> anything I need to do to the browser > >>> to get it to recognize them, because > >>> flash is still not working. > >> > >> Sorry, I forgot to mention that for > >> firefox you want to make a symbolic > >> link from > >> > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > >> > >> to > >> > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so > >> > >> and from > >> > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt > >> > >> to > >> > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so > >> > >> (Shamelessly copied from a previous > >> post :) > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > There's a typo in the last link: it should be > > from > > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt > > to > > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt > > > > I put my links into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins instead of > > firefox/plugins and I'm then able to view flash in konqueror as well as > > firefox. > > > > > > Also I had to create a file named /etc/libmap.conf with the following in > > it: > > > > # Flash6 with Konqueror > > [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] > > libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so > > libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so > > libz.so.1 libz.so.3 > > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.5 > > libm.so.6 libm.so.4 > > libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > Thanks, that worked for firefox. It didn't seem to work for Konqurer > (but don't really use it anyway). Oh yeah, I also had to go into the settings for konqueror and click a button something like "scan for plugins", after that, flash in Konqueror worked too.
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