Firefox & linuxpluginwrapper

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 08:04 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I wasn't able to get flash working with firefox 1.5.  I
> > tried reinstalling linuxpluginwrapper & linux-flashplugin6.
> > I changed my libmap.conf, making sure all the files existed
> > on the system.  Still, 'about:plugins' did not show flash.
> > I have an older version of firefox at work (which has flash
> > working), so I was poking around and saw that /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
> > had soft links for libflashplayer.so & flashplayer.xpt.  I created
> > those links in my browser_plugins directory on my home server and
> > flash is working with firefox 1.5.  I don't know if Makefile for 
> > the linux-flashplugin6 should make this or isn't working, but I 
> > thought I would share my solutions.
> 
> same symptoms here, except 1.5 is my first firefox install.
> 
> so i did
>   portupgrade -f linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113
> 
> then i softlinked libflashplayer.so & flashplayer.xpt into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins per above
> 
> killed and restarted firefox, but about:plugins does not show
> flash :-(

  ..did you create the libmap.conf?
> 
> btw, know where i can get a nice gnome launcher icon for ff?
> 

  No, but I'm sure somebody on the list does. :-)

> randy
> 
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Scott T. Hildreth <shild at sbcglobal.net>