Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

[John Nielsen]

On Monday 01 May 2006 01:18, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Jeff, please let me know how you go with this - I've tried this several
> times (all steps,including patchign for _dlsym) with no luck... maybe I
> missed something every time :-|... I'm thinking of using linux-firefox
> which , apparently, from a post to this list, supports the binary plugin
> from macromedia.

Jumping in late here.  I have Flash 7 working with Firefox on 6.1-RC.  Here's 
everything I remember doing:

1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my sources 
and before I build / install world.  I don't remember where I got it but it 
should be in the mailing list archives.  It should be sufficient to rebuild 
and reinstall just rtld.

2) I have these packages installed:
linux-flashplugin-7.0r63
linux_base-8-8.0_14
linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_2

3) I have this in /etc/libmap.conf
# [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0                 libpthread.so.2
libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash7.so

I also have all of the Flash6 lines commented out.  I don't know if that's 
necessary or not.

4) flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ 
are symlinks to the real files in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/.

HTH,

JN