Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade

Micah <micahjon@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800

Chris Hill wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:

[snip]
The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All 
of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them do.

[snip]
Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0" and "Flash no 
longer displayed in Firefox".

Neither of those search terms yields any results, but you've given me 
another direction to look. I searched the archives yet again, this time 
on 'linuxpluginwrapper'. Found 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=751336+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions 

...based on which, I did
# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/
This fixed things partially. A visit to 
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/

shows that "regular" flash works, but not shockwave.
Still no luck with PDFs or mplayer-plugin.
Another result from my archive search was 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1310074+1313109+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions 
...which revealed the existence of the WITH_PLUGINS make knob for 
linuxpluginwrapper, so I did

tripel# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper

tripel# make deinstall

tripel# make -DWITH_PLUGINS reinstall
...which resulted in no change.
I'm at a loss regarding the mplayer-plugin stuff. As for Acrobat, I'd 
bet it has something to do with the disappearance of the path 
/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin, but 
I don't know how that came to exist or why it no longer does.
It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to 
make it work are described in those recent threads.

Thank you for the pointer, especially for the speed of your post.
HTH,
Micah

It did, a little. Thank you.
But it's still vexing that all this stuff worked fine before, and that 
the upgrade seems to have broken it. I'm also curious why 
"about:plugins" shows, for example, mplayer-plugin installed for a wide 
variety of MIME-types, but trying to access online videos no longer 
starts mplayer-plugin as it did before the upgrade.
My meta-question remains: Is this documented, and if so, where?
--
Chris Hill               chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
**                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]

The mailman search interface is screwed up, and the FreeBSD search 
engine and Google haven't indexed recent threads yet.  A look through 
December's archives would've turned these up.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107922.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107098.html
HTH,
Micah
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