how to enable linux flash player in firefox

David Benfell benfell at parts-unknown.org
Tue Jan 30 14:31:37 UTC 2007


On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:50:30 +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:43:21PM +0800, peter wrote:
> > 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
> >
> 
> That last part is useless now and will not work with 6.2-RELEASE.
> The current working way, is using a freash port tree and following the
> Handbook instructions.  This is for Flash 7 (with or without soound
> according to the site you visit), for Flash 9 it's another story...
> 
For what value, do you mean "useless now and will not work?"

I had to adjust the instructions because the patch actually is for
/usr/src not /usr/src/libexec but I have just completed the build.

Haven't rebooted yet, though.


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