On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:08:35PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Anyone get swfdec-plugin to work? Doesn't show up in firefox3's list
of plugins (neither does mplayer-plugin or gnash). Does port
installation order matter? Do I have to delete .firefox or some
other slight-of-hand?
Oh, one other thing:
Do you have a symlink to:
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so
. . . in your $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directory?
--
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Steve McConnell: Good code is its own best documentation. As
you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code
so that this comment isn't needed?'
Ok, so here's the correct way to fix this, I'm pretty sure:
1) You install firefox as root. When you log in as user, there is no
~/.mozilla/plugins; instead of making that folder and symlinking to
swfdec in it, you should symlink:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins
2) You are halfway there. I submitted a change-request to the
swfdec-plugin port to do this, but until then,
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/swfdec-plugin/libswfdecmozilla.so
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/swfdec
No idea how firefox would automatically make the plugin link in your
home folder, so there's no fix for that. The swfdec source has just
been updated (12/20/2008) and purportedly works with the likes of
youtube, so it seems like a good flash solution for FreeBSD at the
moment. It worked on the flash site I was trying to visit, and the
adobe flash test page.
Hope this helps some newbie(s) in the future...
Best,
Steve
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