how to enable linux flash player in firefox

Tijl Coosemans tijl at ulyssis.org
Sat Jan 27 23:52:30 UTC 2007


On Saturday 27 January 2007 21:17, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > If you want to use flash with native freebsd browsers, you need to use
> > linuxpluginwrapper (only for FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x). The details are
> > explained at
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> > http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php
> >
> > If that doesn't work, please specify which FreeBSD version you're
> > using and which browser.
> 
> I followed those instructions and with firefox-2.0.0.1_1,1 it gives this 
> result:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so: Undefined 
> symbol "_dlsym"
> 
> Since I'm now using 6.2-PRERELEASE I guess it could be fixed in the 
> final RELEASE, but it would be nice to know if someone can recognize 
> "_dlsym" and say it is so.

You need to apply the rtld patch mentioned in the first link above.


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