flash plugin in 6.0
Dev Tugnait
dev at unixdaemon.org
Sun Dec 18 21:23:41 PST 2005
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:47 -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 06:57 pm, Ross Adams Lippert wrote:
> > Where is the latest documentation on this continually vexing
> > problem? Why do I feel like this is the hardest part of any
> > upgrade?
>
> That port is borked, here's what you have to do to get it working:
>
The port is not broken cvsup your tree
> ## Workaround for broken port linuxpluginwrapper.
>
> ## Before building linuxpluginwrapper:
>
> rm -R /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins
>
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins
>
>
> ## Build linuxpluginwrapper:
>
> cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
>
> make -DWITH_PLUGINS install clean
>
> ## or upgrade:
>
> portupgrade -vm -DWITH_PLUGINS linuxpluginwrapper
>
> ## Remove symlink (will break Mozilla).
>
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins
>
I advice not to remove /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
>
> ## Fix acroread:
>
> rm -rf /usr/local/bin/acroread # If upgrade.
>
> mv /usr/local/bin/acroread7 /usr/local/bin/acroread
>
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nppdf.so
>
> ln
> -s /usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nppdf.so
>
> ## Change path to nppdf.so in /etc/libmap.conf:
>
> # Acrobat7 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror
> [/usr/local/lib/acroread/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so]
> libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so
>
>
> ## Acroread now works properly in browser.
> ## Helix plugin does not work with Firefox or Mozilla at this time.
> ## Flash 6.0 works without modification.
> ## Flash7 is VERY unstable and will crash Firefox (possibly Mozilla).
>
> ## Launch browser and type "about:plugins" without the quotes to check that
> plugins are enabled.
>
> Beech
>
Refrain from giving bad advice please
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Dev Tugnait <dev at unixdaemon.org>
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