flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

Tino Engel elrap at web.de
Mon Nov 12 14:56:19 PST 2007


Aryeh M. Friedman schrieb:
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> Tino Engel wrote:
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>> Aryeh M. Friedman schrieb:
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>>>> I posed a similar question on this list a short time ago.  Right
>>>> now, the only 'Flash' working on either Linux or native is Flash 7,
>>>> which does not work on many sites.  To get Flash 9, you need to use
>>>> wine under freebsd and install the windows version of Firefox.  I
>>>> have been told that this solution works fine "out of the box" on
>>>> FreeBSD 6.2 but I have not yet confirmed.
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>>> Works right out of the box for all versions of FreeBSD > 6.... I just
>>> did it on a 8-Current machine doing the following port installs in
>>> this order:
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>>> firefox
>>> linux-flashplugin7
>>> acroread7
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>>> after you install acroread run "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i".
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>> So did I. When I run firefox then, I get an error message as follows:
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>> freebsdangel# firefox
>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object
>> "libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]
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>> But the library is existing:
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>> freebsdangel# find / -name libdl.so.2
>> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2
>> freebsdangel#
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>> And even adjusting the path does not help:
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>> freebsdangel# setenv PATH "${PATH}:/usr/compat/linux/lib"
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>> The result is the same:
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>> So basically the question is:
>> How can I tell FreeBSD where to find the requested lib??
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> Did you do it from packages or ports?
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 From ports



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