Port www/plugger and www/plugger-plugins-hubbe

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Tue Jun 7 19:53:11 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Ralf Weyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Firefox 1.0.4 on FreeBSD 5.4, and I've installed Plugger 5.1.3 and Plugger-plugins 5.0.4. Then I've testet the plugins on the Plugger-website, and most of them work, but some don't.

I'd be curious how well www/mozplugger compares to that as it seems to
be better maintained.  This port was just added a couple of days ago.

> 
> Audio/YM
> ----------------
> Error message => Plugger: No appropriate application for type audio/x-stsound found!
> 
> Images/Gimp
> ---------------------
> Error message => Plugger: No appropriate application for type application/x-gimp found!
> 
> Documents/Postscript
> -----------------------------------
> Error message => No error message, all there is is the message "Running helper..." at the status line of the browser
> 
> Documents/PDF
> --------------------------
> Error message => No error message, all there is is the message "Running helper..." at the status line of the browser
> 
> Documents/MS Word
> ----------------------------------
> Error message => Plugger: No appropriate application for type application/msword found!
> 
> Documents/MS Excel
> ----------------------------------
> Error message => Plugger: No appropriate application for type application/vnd.ms-excel found!
> 
> 3D data/VRML
> ------------------------
> Error message => Plugger: No appropriate application for type model/vrml found!
> 
> 
> Audio/YM and 3D data/VRML is ok, there are no such things installed (and I don't really care about it), but the rest is simply not true. I've included a few lines of pkg_info, which shows the installed packages:
> 
> de-openoffice-1.1.4_2 Office-Suite mit Textverarbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation, Dat
> gimp-2.2.6,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program
> gv-3.6.1 A PostScript and PDF previewer
> xpdf-3.00_6 Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats
> 
> plugger-5.1.3 A multimedia front-end plugin for Mozilla or Opera
> plugger-plugins-hubbe-5.0_4 Meta package installing all author-recommended Plugger plug
> 
> As you can see, OpenOffice 1.1.4 is installed (should open MS Word and Excel documents), also Gimp for Gimp-files, gv for postscript files and xpdf for PDF files. I did not install Adobe Acrobat Reader (simply deleted the line in the Makefile), and I don't want to install the Reader since xpdf normally works just as well.
> 
> Is there a (hopefully easy) way to fix this problem?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Ralf Weyer
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