firefox & flash9 patches - now it works with sound on 8-CURRENT

[Boris Samorodov]

Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 23:14 -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>
>> Can someone provide a step by step to get flash 9 with sound working
>> on 8-CURRENT?
>> 
>> eg what ports need to be installed
>
> By experience, you need:
> * recent 8-CURRENT with linuxator patch from Chagin Dmitry 
> (see beginning of that thread)
> * recent ports tree with ports:
>         - linux_base-f8-8_5 (Makefile 1.44 or later!)
>         - linux-flashplugin-9.0r124_1 
>         - nspluginwrapper-1.0.0
> and dependencies

FYI the following step is not needed with linux_base-f8-8_6:
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> also you need download and install keyutils-libs-1.2-2.fc6.i386.rpm (I
> do not know why .fc6 package get to fc8 distribution DVD, but it fits ok
> here).
> you can get it from any appropriate place, like:
> ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/keyutils-1.2-2.fc6.i386.rpm
> Then you need to extract it to compat tree:
> cd /compat/linux && rpm2cpio /path/to/keyutils-1.2-2.fc6.i386.rpm | cpio
> -id
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> now run as root:
>
> # nspluginwrapper -a -v -i
> Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
> Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
> Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
> Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
> Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
> Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
> Install plugin /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/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
> #
>
> Now you should have working flash9 under firefox2 (www/firefox).
>
> If you need it under firefox3 (www/firefox3) link plugin manually to
> firefox3 plugins:
>
> # ln /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/
>
> Enjoy
>
>> Sam Fourman Jr.


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