how to enable linux flash player in firefox

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

my psersonal flash experience with
opera by going to youtube is linux-opera works but not native
opera+linuxplugin.

TFC


On 1/27/07, Andreas Davour <ante at update.uu.se> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:20, Andreas Davour wrote:
> >> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >>> Flash9 is very unstable though, so you'll probably want to stay
> >>> with flash7 for now.
> >>
> >> Since I have had serious problems getting even Flash7 to work,
> >> following instructions found here at the list, could you please
> >> summarize the steps for getting the older Flash version running? I'm
> >> begining to suspect something more is needed than the information
> >> I've found. Do e.g. I have to run firefox under Linux emulation?
> >
> > When I need to access a flash site (and only then, the rest are ads
> > anyway), I simply use linux-firefox (or linux-opera) with
> > linux-flashplugin7. That works by simply installing those ports. No
> > extra configuration is necessary.
>
> I'm tempted to install linux-firefox or linux-opera myself, since you
> have no problems with them
>
> > If you want to use flash with native freebsd browsers, you need to use
> > linuxpluginwrapper (only for FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x). The details are
> > explained at
> >
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> > http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php
> >
> > If that doesn't work, please specify which FreeBSD version you're
> > using and which browser.
>
> I followed those instructions and with firefox-2.0.0.1_1,1 it gives this
> result:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so: Undefined
> symbol "_dlsym"
>
> Since I'm now using 6.2-PRERELEASE I guess it could be fixed in the
> final RELEASE, but it would be nice to know if someone can recognize
> "_dlsym" and say it is so.
>
> /andreas
>
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