firefox with flash and java!

[Duane Whitty]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:36:43PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:40:37 +0000
> >"Marwan Sultan" <dead_l... 
> ><http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?msg=695fbeab0c2a56e4&_done=/group/list.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/220f6510efe41d89/6e9a9d715460864c%3Fq%3Drtld_dlsym_hack.diff%26rnum%3D1>@hotmail.com> 
> >wrote:
> >> hello everyone!
> >
> >>   I'm really sorry to ask over here, but sick and tired browsing and 
> >asking
> >> around.
> >
> >>   I'm on latest FreeBSD 6.1R latest KDE and latest firefox 1.5.3
> >>   I cannot find the flash plugins for Konqueror because no more port 
> >for it,
> >> (linux-flashplgin6)
> >
> >>   So i have installed Firefox, now i'm lost, which in port is the flash
> >> plugin?
> >
> >>   I have linux-flashplugin7 installed, linuxpluginwrapper,
> >
> >looks ok
> >
> >$ pkg_info | grep -i flash && pkg_info | grep -i firefox
> >linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 The official Macromedia Flash Player for 
> >Linux Mozilla
> >
> > firefox-1.5.0.3,1   Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> >firefox-remote-20040803 Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser
> >
> >>   But flash still not workin in firefox, i dont know what to do now?
> >>   Will someone kindly guied me for this? how to install flash, for 
> >firefox?
> >> and enable it.
> >
> >from someone else's kind instructions, which worked great for me:
> >
> >- modify your libmap.conf , following what is shown in
> >what  /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6
> >
> >- Finally edit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh and add
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
> > (near the end of the script) (colon-separated path components)
> >
> >- path your kernel:
> >Please get and apply a dlsym(3) hook patch (apply in /usr/src ; then cd
> >libexec/rtld-elf and do make rtld)
> >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/*rtld_dlsym_hack.diff* 
> ><http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Enork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff> This provides 
> >_dlsym(3)
> >function to fix dynamic-link error "can't find gtk_major_version" 
> >ad-hoc-ly.
> >
> >$cd /usr/src
> >$fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/*rtld_dlsym_hack.diff* 
> ><http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Enork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff>
> >$patch < *rtld_dlsym_hack.diff*
> >$ cd libexec/rtld-elf
> >$sudo make rtld
> >$ sudo make install
> >
> >>   Also How to install java? on firefox? it would be my next step.
> >
> >>   Is there by any chance away to run flash for Konqueror? or better to
> >> delete this package if im
> >>   having firefox?
> >
> >i dont know, dont use kde.
> >good luck,
> >Beto
> I have followed all of the instructions for patching the src (from 
> above), and firefox still crashes with the error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: 
> /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so: Undefined symbol "_dlsym"  when 
> a flash page is loaded.  What have I missed?

Hi,

I'm using flash on 6-STABLE so I don't know if it works on 6.1R or not.

Make sure you linux_base ports and linuxpluginwrapper are up-to-date.
I'll assume your linux-flashplugin-7 is up-to-date.  My version is
linux-flashplugin-7.0r63.

A directory listing of /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins might also help.
Here is what my listing looks like:

dwpc@ /etc# ll /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
total 32
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     49 Jun 26 23:39 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     51 Jun 26 23:40 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19216 Jun 19 17:45 libnullplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11632 Jun 19 17:45 libunixprintplugin.so


Also here is what my /etc/libmap.conf looks like:

# [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0     libpthread.so.2
libdl.so.2      pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1     libz.so.3
libm.so.6     libm.so.4
libc.so.6     pluginwrapper/flash7.so


BTW, there is a discussion concerning this on current@
which is very interesting and I recommend as good reading.
As that discussion implies and as the linuxpluginwrapper
states explicitly, this is unsupported.

Hope this helps. YMMV

--Duane