how to enable linux flash player in firefox

FreeBSD WickerBill freebsdwicker at gmail.com
Sun Jan 28 19:34:00 UTC 2007


On 1/28/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/28/07, Andreas Davour <ante at update.uu.se> wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > You need to apply the rtld patch mentioned in the first link above.
> >
> > And I thought that I read that carefully! Was that paragraph added since
> > I read the document? ;)
> >
> > Anyway. Can we hope that patch is finding it's way into the main branch
> > with haste? FreeBSD without Flash working is not a suitable day-to-day
> > websurfing system.
> >
> > /andreas
> >
> > --
> > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> > A: Top-posting.
> > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
> How about it now?
>
> http://www.freshports.org/www/linuxpluginwrapper/
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
> Arab Portal
> http://www.WeArab.Net/
> _______________________________________________



Just installed the new linuxpluginwrapper and cp'd the new libmap.conf to
/etc and everything works as before.


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