Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:07:52 -0500 From: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> To: Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flash in freebsd Message-ID: <4592E0A8.1060800@cyberwang.net> In-Reply-To: <200612271117.29424.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> References: <4591861E.8090609@cupid.com> <20061227010507.506fb932@gumby.homeunix.com> <200612271117.29424.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br>
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Mario Lobo wrote: > Read these instructions from Arjan van Leeuwen. > > It works perfectly !! > > ============================ > Hi Henry, others, > > As of the latest weekly development release of Opera (see > http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/), it's now possible to use any Linux > plugin in the native Opera for FreeBSD version, including Flash and > Acrobat Reader. The feature will be included in the upcoming Opera 9.1. > > For now, it'll require some actions to get it to work, but if you'd like > to experiment with this, this might help: > 0) Make sure you have the x11/linux-xorg-libs port installed. > > 1) Download and extract the latest weekly release for both FreeBSD and > Linux: > http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-507/intel-freebsd/opera-9.10-20061205.4-shared-qt.i386.freebsd-en-507.tar.bz2 > http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-507/intel-linux/opera-9.10-20061205.1-static-qt.i386-en-507.tar.bz2 > (FreeBSD package is for FreeBSD 6.x and requires Qt installed) > > 2) Copy operapluginwrapper from the Linux package over to the FreeBSD > package: > $ cd opera-9.10-20061205.4-shared-qt.i386.freebsd-en-507 > $ > cp ../opera-9.10-20061205.1-static-qt.i386-en-507/plugins/operapluginwrapper > plugins/ > > Now, if you want to run the Opera weekly directly from the package without > installing (will use a fresh, empty profile, recommended): > > 3) Copy libnpp.so within the FreeBSD package to a new location: > $ cp plugins/libnpp.so bin/libnpp.so > > 4) Run Opera > $ ./opera > > If instead you want to install Opera for all users (will overwrite > existing installations and use your default profile, not recommended with > development releases like this): > > 3) Run install > $ ./install.sh > > 4) Copy libnpp.so manually to the Opera binary directory > $ cp plugins/libnpp.so /usr/local/share/opera/bin/ > > 5) Run Opera > $ /usr/local/bin/opera > > The actions described here do not affect Java; you'll still be able to run > Java applets with the native version of Java (such as diablo-jdk or > diablo-jre). > > We appreciate any reports on whether this feature works as expected (or > doesn't at all). > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:31:30 +0100, Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for you support. I have posted on the forum, on ocasion. >> The main issues, for me, are >> 1) Java (idiablo-jdk - it doesn't work, even though the path is right); > > I'm using it here - the path to use is > /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/. You can post on the forum if you > have more problems with this. It could be that you're using a package > that's compiled for a different version of FreeBSD; use the .4 package if > you're on FreeBSD 6. > >> 2) the Flash plugin. Is there a way to use the Linux emulation layer >> in order to get the plug-in working? > > See above :) > >> 3) Cyrillic fonts look small, and you can't make them bigger. > > I don't know about that, but you could file a bug at > http://bugs.opera.com/. > > Best regards, > > Arjan van Leeuwen > ============================ > Actually 9.10 was released and it is supposed to have support out of the box for linux plugins. So why not try the latest release.
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