how to enable linux flash player in firefox
peter
peter at topcomtech.com.cn
Tue Jan 30 04:48:41 UTC 2007
> Andreas Davour wrote:
> Sorry for being so lost. I'm totally lost in the native/emulated mess
> and which of the ports work with which.
>It's terribly sad that nobody can make it work, as of now. I really
>hope
>FreeBSD 7 can make a change.
I'm now using 6.2-PRERELEASE as the desktop with firefox
2,linux-flashplugin7. All work well.
That confused me for few days, now I write the detail steps for you.
1.Use portsnap update the ports tree.You can read the info from the
freebsd handbook, "Appendix A. Obtaining FreeBSD"
2.Install linux_base from /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4,
In /etc/rc.onf, add the line: linux_enable="YES"
3.Install firefox2 from /usr/ports/www/firefox.
4.Install linuxpluginwrapper in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper.
cp /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 /etc/libmap.conf
5.Install linux-flashplugin7 in /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7.
In handbook :
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt \
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
but firefox plugin directory is /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/, so you must change above line
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ to /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/
6.Check the libexec directory exists in /usr/src,
if no, #sysinstall-> custom->deistributions->src->libexec, then
# cd /usr/src/libexec
# fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
# patch < rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
# cd rtld-elf
# make clean
# make obj
# make depend
# make && make install
Then reboot your machine.
Now it should work.
hope this help you.
peter
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