[SOLUTION] Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

[Norberto Meijome]

On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:42 -0400
John Nielsen <john at jnielsen.net> wrote:

> On Monday 01 May 2006 01:18, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > Jeff, please let me know how you go with this - I've tried this several
> > times (all steps,including patchign for _dlsym) with no luck... maybe I
> > missed something every time :-|... I'm thinking of using linux-firefox
> > which , apparently, from a post to this list, supports the binary plugin
> > from macromedia.
> 
> Jumping in late here.  I have Flash 7 working with Firefox on 6.1-RC.  Here's 
> everything I remember doing:
> 
> 1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my
> sources and before I build / install world.  I don't remember where I got it
> but it should be in the mailing list archives.  It should be sufficient to
> rebuild and reinstall just rtld.
> 
> 2) I have these packages installed:
> linux-flashplugin-7.0r63
> linux_base-8-8.0_14
> linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_2
> 
> 3) I have this in /etc/libmap.conf
> # [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
> [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so]
> libpthread.so.0                 libpthread.so.2
> libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash7.so
> libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
> libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
> libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash7.so
> 
> I also have all of the Flash6 lines commented out.  I don't know if that's 
> necessary or not.
> 
> 4) flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ 
> are symlinks to the real files in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/.

Thanks John, the steps you described got everything working as it should. I
actually rebooted after step 1), not 100% sure if it's relevant or not.

working quite well, youtube works, but it still hangs on video.google.com... oh
well,

cheers,
Beto