Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:48:41 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>, FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade Message-ID: <200512301248.55329.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43B588E2.4000600@ywave.com> References: <20051229220507.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <43B588E2.4000600@ywave.com>
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--nextPart1302224.J9nd98VGHI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 30 December 2005 10:22 am, Micah wrote: > Chris Hill wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote: > >> Chris Hill wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>> The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All > >>> of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them > >>> do. > > > > [snip] > > > >> Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0" and "Flash no > >> longer displayed in Firefox". > > > > Neither of those search terms yields any results, but you've given me > > another direction to look. I searched the archives yet again, this time > > on 'linuxpluginwrapper'. Found > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D751336+0+/usr/local/www/d= b/te > >xt/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions > > > > > > ...based on which, I did > > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ > > > > This fixed things partially. A visit to > > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ > > shows that "regular" flash works, but not shockwave. > > > > Still no luck with PDFs or mplayer-plugin. > > > > Another result from my archive search was > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1310074+1313109+/usr/loca= l/ww > >w/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions ...which > > revealed the existence of the WITH_PLUGINS make knob for > > linuxpluginwrapper, so I did > > tripel# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper > > tripel# make deinstall > > tripel# make -DWITH_PLUGINS reinstall > > > > ...which resulted in no change. > > > > I'm at a loss regarding the mplayer-plugin stuff. As for Acrobat, I'd > > bet it has something to do with the disappearance of the path > > /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin, but > > I don't know how that came to exist or why it no longer does. > > > >> It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to > >> make it work are described in those recent threads. > > > > Thank you for the pointer, especially for the speed of your post. > > > >> HTH, > >> Micah > > > > It did, a little. Thank you. > > > > But it's still vexing that all this stuff worked fine before, and that > > the upgrade seems to have broken it. I'm also curious why > > "about:plugins" shows, for example, mplayer-plugin installed for a wide > > variety of MIME-types, but trying to access online videos no longer > > starts mplayer-plugin as it did before the upgrade. > > > > My meta-question remains: Is this documented, and if so, where? > > > > -- > > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > > The mailman search interface is screwed up, and the FreeBSD search > engine and Google haven't indexed recent threads yet. A look through > December's archives would've turned these up. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107922= =2Eh >tml > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107098= =2Eh >tml > =46or acroread make sure you rename /usr/local/bin/acroread7=20 to /usr/local/bin/acroread. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1302224.J9nd98VGHI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDtatHVq19LUoGB+MRAvWsAJ4kuYYp/8L1MlC+IPvstgvDCXzkwQCfRETe Wqlk3Ie0LvUQQuXBeh+sMyk= =M4CB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1302224.J9nd98VGHI--
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