Rhapsody music service with FreeBSD+linux-firefox

[Seamus Abshere]

dear FreeBSDers,

I can report that Rhapsody music service (www.rhapsody.com) works with 
an old version of the linux-firefox port on FreeBSD 6.0.

concurrently on my system:
-> linux-firefox-1.0.7, user profile "music" using Rhapsody
-> firefox-1.5, user profile "Seamus Abshere" using the internet

*I assume you have the normal firefox port installed, currently 1.5_5*
If you do not, I don't know if this will work for you.

Obviously, *you also need linux compatibility.* A good way to test this 
(and get a useful app in the process) is the acroread7 port.

***Finally, most importantly*** be careful about running make && make 
install in an alternatively old/totally-updated version of the ports 
tree. I bet you would get some strange results if it started installing 
dependencies from late 2005.

So assuming linux compat, firefox-1.5, etc., try this:

0. UPDATE YOUR PORTS TREE

1. REVERT TO OLD ports-www
your ports-supfile probably contains this (excluding commented lines):

> *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> ports-all

now we're going to *temporarily* change it to:

>> *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
>> *default base=/var/db
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default release=cvs tag=.
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default date=2005.11.24.12.12.12
>> *default compress
> #ports-all
> ports-www

(so you should have commented out one line, uncommented one line, and 
added a date line.)

now use cvsup to get the old ports-www!!! <--- important

2. UNDO CHANGES TO ports-supfile

3. MAKE && MAKE INSTALL CLEAN linux-firefox

4. CREATE A NEW PROFILE FOR linux-firefox
call it "music" or something
> linux-firefox -P &

5. RUN firefox WITH YOUR OLD USER PROFILE

6. RUN linux-firefox WITH YOUR "music" USER PROFILE

good luck.