Re: Is FreeBSD ready for desktop (Mozilla Flash)

From: mr_scary (groups_for_google_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 09/09/05 

Date: 8 Sep 2005 18:33:51 -0700

In case you're still interested, here is the answer:

1. Have these ports installed:

linux_base
linuxpluginwrapper (edit Makefile and specify plugins desired*)
linux-flashplugin

2. Have /etc/libmap.conf contain:

[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libz.so.1 libz.so.2
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.4
libm.so.6 libm.so.3
libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so.misc

3. Edit /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf so that the Makefile is not
updated when the ports tree is updated:

HOLD_PKGS = [
'linuxpluginwrapper*',
]

* Remove RUN_DEPENDS lines. For example, remove the following if you
do not want to use RealPlayer or Acrobat via Firefox:

RUN_DEPENDS+=
${LOCALBASE}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/linux-realplayer
.if ${OSVERSION} >= 500000
RUN_DEPENDS+=
${LOCALBASE}/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so:${PORTSDIR}/print/acroread
.else
USE_MOTIF= yes
.endif

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