firefox with flash and java!
Norberto Meijome
freebsd at meijome.net
Wed May 24 06:01:46 PDT 2006
On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:31:51 +0000
"Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Beto,
>
> Thank you for the replay,
np
> Would you please kindly tell me where is the instruction written on which
> web? for future
> refrence.
it was in one of the freeBSD lists , most probably questions.
>
> Second:
> You wrote that i should "add" the line /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh take a note that its
> linux-flashplugin7 not 6
> 6 is not supported anymore. is it correct then?
7 should be ok - sorry, i obviously haven't updated my notes since v6 (they are
notes after all, not dogma ;)
>
> Whats the way to add the line, i have done the following is it correct ?
> MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins:/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins:/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7
correct
> Or it should be only MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7 ??
no, leave what is there and add the flashplugin path
>
> Third and last:
> After i did the past steps i tried to run firefox and i opened a page that
> contain flash
> then firefox crushed with an error
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so: undefined
> symbol "_dlsym"
>
> So i proced to your last step and I did
> # cd /usr/src
> # patch < rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> # cd libexec/rtld-elf
> # make rtld
>
> Till here everything was Ok! when i tried to do "make install"
> it gave me an error..
> # make install
> chflags noschg /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 -C -b -fschg -S ld-elf.so.1 /libexec
> install: ld-elf.so.1: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 71
>
> Stop in /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf.
you need to do this last step as root
>
> Sorry for the long email, wish i got the help.
> And thank you.
np :)
flash7 in my box works quite well - EXCEPT with google-videos (just letting you
know in case you find the same issue.
good luck,
Beto
>
> Marwan
>
>
>
> >
> >On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:40:37 +0000
> >"Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hello everyone!
> > >
> > > I'm really sorry to ask over here, but sick and tired browsing and
> >asking
> > > around.
> > >
> > > I'm on latest FreeBSD 6.1R latest KDE and latest firefox 1.5.3
> > > I cannot find the flash plugins for Konqueror because no more port for
> >it,
> > > (linux-flashplgin6)
> > >
> > > So i have installed Firefox, now i'm lost, which in port is the flash
> > > plugin?
> > >
> > > I have linux-flashplugin7 installed, linuxpluginwrapper,
> >
> >looks ok
> >
> >$ pkg_info | grep -i flash && pkg_info | grep -i firefox
> >linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux
> >Mozilla
> >
> > firefox-1.5.0.3,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> >firefox-remote-20040803 Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser
> >
> >
> > >
> > > But flash still not workin in firefox, i dont know what to do now?
> > > Will someone kindly guied me for this? how to install flash, for
> >firefox?
> > > and enable it.
> >
> >from someone else's kind instructions, which worked great for me:
> >
> >- modify your libmap.conf , following what is shown in
> >what /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6
> >
> >- Finally edit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh and add
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
> > (near the end of the script) (colon-separated path components)
> >
> >- path your kernel:
> >Please get and apply a dlsym(3) hook patch (apply in /usr/src ; then cd
> >libexec/rtld-elf and do make rtld)
> >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff This provides
> >_dlsym(3)
> >function to fix dynamic-link error "can't find gtk_major_version"
> >ad-hoc-ly.
> >
> >$cd /usr/src
> >$fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> >$patch < rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> >$ cd libexec/rtld-elf
> >$sudo make rtld
> >$ sudo make install
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Also How to install java? on firefox? it would be my next step.
> > >
> > > Is there by any chance away to run flash for Konqueror? or better to
> > > delete this package if im
> > > having firefox?
> >
> >i dont know, dont use kde.
> >
> >good luck,
> >Beto
>
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