I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running into some annoying problems.
I know I needed linuxpluginwrapper to get this to work and so installed it along with the linux flash plugin port. I tried several times, reviewed the port build notes, looked for readmes, and searched some with Google. I found several detailed installation instructions but none of them worked for me. In order to get it to work, I copied flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so from the linux-flashplayer6 installation directory into the browser_plugins directory. I took this from instructions for getting an older flashplayer5 to work. This at least got me to an error message (about not being able to locate libpthreads.so. That is one of the things that linuxpluginwrapper is supposed to take care of. After several more attempts at trying to resolve this, I resorted to a brute force method. I copied the flash6.so library that came with linuxpluginwrapper to the browser_plugins directory as libpthreads.so. This is a very bad solution but I got flash working. So, my question is how do I get this to work properly? For any who might be able to help, here is some relevant info: Installed: firefox-1.5.0.1,1 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 messy file copies: flashplayer.xpt -> ../linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt libdl.so.2 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so libflashplayer.so -> ../linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so libpthread.so.0 -> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy? -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
