flash gotcha?

Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com
Wed Mar 31 20:32:53 UTC 2010


hi

I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386.
linux_base-f10-10_2
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42
nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5

muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
   into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Auto-install plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins
muji2#

%nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
  ... already installed system-wide, skipping
Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins
%

about:plugins in firefox3 shows flash is not installed.

muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -r
Auto-remove plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Remove plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Auto-remove plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins

%nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so
   into /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins

Now about:plugins shows flash is installed and stays installed for the 
non-root user even if root subsequently runs nspluginwrapper again.

Chris


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