flashplugin9?

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> > > flashplugin-9.  So far, no joy.  I have firefox2, and when I try to
> > > pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> > > linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
> > > still YouTube won't work.
> > >
> > > Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use?  Or is there another
> > > way of getting both audio+video?  
> > >
> > > gary
> > >   
> > 
> > Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it.
> 
> 	Okay; i wasn't clear on that... .
> 
> > 
> > graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube.
> 
> 	Maybe I need up portupgrade.  I use mostly konqueror for the web;
> 	things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes.  Should I
> 	pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers?
> 
> > 
> > Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the
> > plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You
> > will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one
> > for the plugins to work.
> 
> 	Sorry, you lost me.  Which is the ``new one''?  The only mozilla 
> 	plugins dir in ~kline I find is  ~/.mozilla/plugins/ .  There are
> 	data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree.
>

In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for
plugins handled by nspluginwrapper).  The best solution is just to rm
the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then:

% nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
for more details).

Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like:

Shockwave Flash
File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152
etc.

should appear.

-- 
Marc