Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:20:52 +0000 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flashplugin not working Message-ID: <200603030020.52514.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <200603030930.08868.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> References: <200603030930.08868.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
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On Thursday 02 March 2006 23:30, Warren Liddell wrote: > Im using Freebsd6.1-pre > > I have the flash pluginwrapper isntalled and not sure if i need anything > else, to get flash working in Mozilla .. as presently it isnt and im slow= ly > getting sick of accessing all the sites i need to and not being able to > view them all due to this. > > Any assistance appreciated. Chandon Handler wrote this quick how-to the other day and posted to the list =2D-------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone looking for a quick solution, this is what worked for me on FreeBSD 6.0 Release. I have /usr/ports extracted from the 6.0 Release ISO CD. =A0I also have a directory which I named /home/newports extracted from the latest portsnap download: =A0 portsnap -p /home/newports fetch =A0 portsnap -p /home/newports extract followd by =A0 portsnap -p /home/newports update The following steps gave me firefox 1.0.7 with a working flash 6 plugin: =A0 cd /usr/ports/www/firefox =A0 make install clean =A0 cd =A0/usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 =A0 make install clean =A0 cd /home/newports/www/linuxpluginwrapper =A0 make install clean =A0 cp -i=20 /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6=20 /etc/libmap.conf =46inally edit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh and add =A0 /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH =A0 (near the end of the script) (colon-separated path components) Now run firefox as usual. That was it for me. =A0Hope this or some variation of this helps anyone who needs a working setup quickly. =A0Various linux compatibility packages got installed in the process as dependencies (list below) but none gave me any trouble. linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_3 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary linux-expat-1.95.5_3 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 The official Macromedia Flash Player for=20 Linux Mozilla and linux-flashplugin-7.0r61 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux=20 Mozilla and linux-fontconfig-2.1_3 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig linux-glib2-2.2.1_3 Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib linux_base-8-8.0_6 =A0Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for=20 i386) linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with=20 native applica Unfortunately the build of firefox 1.5 in /home/newports breaks for me, so I cannot get firefox 1.5 and flash working together in this manner yet. =A0Also, I installed linux-flashplugin7 the same way, however, it crashes firefox 1.0.7 immediately at start, so I removed the plugin path for flash 7 from MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. =46irefox 1.0.7 + Flash 6 will keep me running until the new versions stabilize. =2D----------------------------------------------------------------- I followed it and got it working with Firefox 1.5, FreeBSD 5.3. It won't do Flash7 stuff of course. I tried adapting the above for Flash7 = and=20 it failed. I didn't try very hard though. > _______________________________________________ > 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" =2D-=20 Dave
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