flashplugin9?

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Guys,
> > > >
> > > > If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> > > > flashplugin-9.  So far, no joy.  I have firefox2, and when I try to
> > > > pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> > > > linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
> > > > still YouTube won't work.
> > > >
> > > > Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use?  Or is there another
> > > > way of getting both audio+video?  
> > > >
> > > > gary
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it.
> > 
> > 	Okay; i wasn't clear on that... .
> > 
> > > 
> > > graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube.
> > 
> > 	Maybe I need up portupgrade.  I use mostly konqueror for the web;
> > 	things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes.  Should I
> > 	pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers?
> > 
> > > 
> > > Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the
> > > plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You
> > > will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one
> > > for the plugins to work.
> > 
> > 	Sorry, you lost me.  Which is the ``new one''?  The only mozilla 
> > 	plugins dir in ~kline I find is  ~/.mozilla/plugins/ .  There are
> > 	data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree.
> >
> 
> In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for
> plugins handled by nspluginwrapper).  The best solution is just to rm
> the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then:
> 
> % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
> 
> and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> for more details).
> 
> Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like:
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152
> etc.
> 
> should appear.
> 
> -- 
> Marc


	well, thanks to all.  as of yesterday around 16:20 doing the
	nspluginwrapper thing installed both a shared helix lib and a
	flashplayer library in ~/.mozilla/plugins .  so now, youtube can
	waste my time (ha-ha-hmph).  next i'll see if i can do other A/V
	streams.

	gary


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