Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:41:23 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Flash no longer displayed in Firefox Message-ID: <200512101541.24213.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512101421.30240.akbeech@gmail.com> References: <439AB1A1.6030508@wanadoo.fr> <20051210171021.b70cdd07.dick@nagual.st> <200512101421.30240.akbeech@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:21, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:10 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:36:28 -0800 > > > > "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Good information! To automate this with portmanager you can add > > > the following two lines to pm-020.conf: > > > > > > #below must be on one line > > > STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm > > > STOP|-R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln > > > -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| > > > > YEAH, the information is good, except for the symlinked browser_plugins. > > You should not do this. That is, when I'd done this this week, mozilla > > wouldn't start anymore. Error 76 on X. It stook me quite some time to > > find out that the symlinked plugins dir was to blame. I removed the > > browser_linux_plugins and mozilla worked again. All plugins just are in > > browser_plugins. Having a REAL browser_linux_plugin dir does not harm > > the system. > > I'm running Firefox and don't have Mozilla on any of my boxes. The idea for > the symlink was so plugins would install in the proper directory and save > several steps in having to move them. Seems the proper thing would be to > just remove the symlink after installing pluginwrapper. In a perfect world > that port would just be patched to do the right install (including paths), > but that is beyond my programming abilities. > > Beech www/linuxpluginwrapper has a maintainer so I won't waste time trying to get it fixed but using the example provided earlier plus one more line #below must be on one line STOP|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm -R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins && ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| #second line www/linuxpluginwrapper|WITH_PLUGINS=1| #third line START|/www/linuxpluginwrapper rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins| Would make the link prior to installation, at installation time libs go to the right place and after installation the link is removed... -Mike
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