flash plugin in 6.0 / realplayer & fontconfig

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 19 December 2005 07:24 pm, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 05:41 pm, Rob wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900
> >
> > Beecher Rintoul <akbeech at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > > > On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote:
> > > > > > > Dev Tugnait wrote:
> > > > > > >  > The port is not broken cvsup your tree
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yes it is.  While some things work, it still does not
> > > > > > > create the proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin,
> > > > > > > nor is the path for it correct in the sample
> > > > > > > libmap.confs.  Beecher's fix will correct.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which
> > > > > > does not mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would
> > > > > > you remove your browser_plugins dir?
> > > > >
> > > > > That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately
> > > > > following the first message. Secondly putting plugins in
> > > > > browser_linux_plugins does break firefox and mozilla. I would
> > > > > call that broken where I come from. Users should not have to
> > > > > move things that were installed in the wrong place. That's
> > > > > the job of the port.
> > > >
> > > > You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster
> > > > than some of us read their mails ;-)
> > > > Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is
> > > > "broken" You have too much to manually correct.
> > > > At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some
> > > > time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal.
> > >
> > > Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that
> > > port. I've tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any
> > > response. If I manage to get it working I'll file a PR. The
> > > linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since the last upgrade,
> > > acroread way before that and it took me many hours to find all
> > > the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that
> > > issue). If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a
> > > script which will do it automatically. I would think this would
> > > be a priority if FreeBSD is going to be a viable desktop
> > > alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that causes new
> > > users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to
> > > micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation,
> > > because there isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout
> > > many email threads that span many months.
> > >
> > > If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at:
> > >
> > > http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_t
> > >o.txt
> > >
> > > Just my .02
> > >
> > > Beech
> >
> > I can sympathize about these linux program problems.  I want to be
> > able to listen to Real Audio streams, but as it is now I have to
> > boot into Windows to do it.
> >
> > The linux-realplayer won't start because it can't find any fonts
> > and it tells me to fix fontconfig.  I never had problems with fonts
> > before fontconfig came into being.  I really have no idea why it
> > exists.
>
> I have no problems running realplayer installed from the ports. The
> helix plugin doesn't work with Firefox or Mozilla, but realplay works
> standalone. I would start by making sure your ports are up to date
> and reinstalling linux-fontconfig. If that doesn't work portupgrade
> -rf linux-realplayer and it will rebuild everything that depends on
> it. Also do a pkgdb -F to make sure your dependency database is OK. I
> didn't have any config problems with fontconfig, and didn't have to
> tweak anything. Sounds like something else is wrong.

I have no problem with the plugins. What I have is
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins/nphelix.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins/nphelix.xpt
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/nphelix.xpt
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt

Most of them are links and I don't know which directory is the important 
one but I click on an ram and it plays.

Kent
>
> > Moreover, I have no interest in learning XML, then cutting and
> > pasting various config files together out of what little
> > documentation exists for fontconfig.  The documentation is so poor
> > that I have no idea what I am doing anyway.   Searches on Google
> > and the mailing lists were no help either.
> >
> > It is very frustrating.  I concur that some of these programs are
> > just not desktop ready.  At this rate I am never going to be able
> > to get rid of XP on my laptop.

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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