flash9 checklist

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Steve Polyack wrote:

> Thanks for this.  I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in native 
> Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386.  The only additional thing I had 
> to do was copy 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into 
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin.

I'll second that motion.  Many thanks for making a usable flash plugin a 
reality.  I also had to perform the above copy, so the above info helped 
me.  I don't necessarily like sites that try to force flash upon people, 
but at the same time it's a pain to be among the flash impaired.  I ended 
up switching from FreeBSD back to Linux for a while due to the lack of a 
stable flash plugin.

Anyway, for reference this is what I have on my box which appears to be 
working well so far:

FreeBSD:  RELENG_7

Firefox:  native firefox-3.0.4,1

compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16

OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8

On my previous FreeBSD install I was also having problems with acroread. 
It would segfault every time I tried to start it.  With the above it's 
also working well.  I did have a minor problem with the above setup and 
one of acroread8's dependencies, linux-nvu.  It wanted libgobject-2.0.so.0 
from devel/linux-glib2 under ${LINUXBASE}/usr/lib/. 
emulators/linux_base-f8 installed libgobject-2.0.so.0 at 
${LINUXBASE}/lib/.  I tried changing the dependency line in the linux-nvu 
port's Makefile accordingly but it kept trying to pull in linux-glib2 as a 
dependency.  The install of linux-glib2 would fail as it has some file 
conflicts with linux_base-f8.  I finally just removed the dependency line 
for libgobject-2.0.so.0 from linux-nvu all together, since I knew the 
library was installed and available, and all appears well.



Kevin
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