Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade

[Beech Rintoul]

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=751336+0+/usr/local/www/db/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=1310074+1313109+/usr/local/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 at 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.h
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> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107098.h
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>

For acroread make sure you rename /usr/local/bin/acroread7 
to /usr/local/bin/acroread.

Beech

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