Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera

[Arjan Van Leeuwen]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue <epilogue at allstream.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300
> "Paulo Fonseca Jr." <paulofonsecajr at terra.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this:
> >
> > 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer
> >     make install clean
> >     it's ok
> >
> > 2) Tools -> Preferences -> Plug-ins -> Change path
> >     the working path is: opera;
> > /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins:/usr/local/lib/flash/
> >     it's fine
> >
> > 3) when opera starts with "opera -debugplugin" command the message below
> > occurs:
> 
> judging by the command above, you're using the 'native' version of opera
> (that is to say, opera for freebsd).  is there any reason you would expect
> the LINUX-flashplayer to work?   :P
> 
> try /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper for the native version OR install
> /usr/ports/www/linux-opera.  either should solve your problem.

Use www/linuxpluginwrapper instead of www/flashpluginwrapper - it's
newer, better maintained and supports a newer version of the Flash
player.

That said, it doesn't work with native Opera on FreeBSD 5.x - only on
4.x. So if you want Flash in Opera on FreeBSD 5.x, use linux-opera.

Arjan