From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 6 05:18:04 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 673FE16A400 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:18:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC3343D48 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:18:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s15so46558wxc for ; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:18:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qH9cN6xQV2OcKl5JRaEDzhVFJtFrlCAMroklSk/M3KmAzVUzxkIvkwuxfrILegrH6xWgk6CTd4pSBhdYMN1jSSj6inNOEgUdsGvpAhC65myGEm7nAl5T48oezniUA9a2+BWuPOnLsDP0OTWl6dDVOm9kq8jRG+G/RIbFt8rXgWI= Received: by 10.70.72.16 with SMTP id u16mr691617wxa; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? ( [59.144.39.78]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h35sm338986wxd.2006.04.05.22.18.00; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4434A622.7020601@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:54:50 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar Organization: TISRA User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ean Kingston References: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com> In-Reply-To: <200604052145.09496.ean@istop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 05:18:04 -0000 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? > > >