Re: [gentoo-amd64] Flash 9?

[Ferris McCormick]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:32 -0700, Daemon Xavier wrote:
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> On 1/17/07, Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:03 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>         > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 07:04, Daemon Xavier wrote:
>         > > Has anyone had luck with this in mozilla-firefox-bin??  I
>         use gnash right
>         > > now, since it compiles for 64 bit, it works but not for
>         stuff like flash
>         > > 8+ sites.  Just want to know what the amd64 community does
>         for flash.
>
>         I don't know about the community, but I use
>         mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1 +
>         libflashplayer + nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.2, and that
>         combination works
>         fine for my own needs.
>
>         gnash works sort-of, but not so well as the combination I just
>         mentioned.
>
>         >
>         > Personally , I ignore it.
>         >
>         > --
>         > Rgds
>         > Peter
>
>         Regards,
>         --
>         Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
>         Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
>
>
>
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> Hmm I will give it a try tonight, hopefully i can figure out an
> install package, i'm too used to just emerge'n things.  Will i need to
> copy any files to the firefox directory?  Kinda like when you install
> flash the howto describes copying lib.so files from the shockwave to
> firefox.
>
> Don't tell me that my sentences are run-ons and my grammar sucks, bc i
> know.  But hey im using linux so i'm just better...
>

What I did was chase the plugin information down from firefox links, and
ended up here
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/flash.html

Now, it says this will download flashplayer-7.  It really downloads -9,
but that is OK:  that's the one you want, anyway.  Then, you can either
run the installer, or just put the libflashplayer.[so,xpt] into
~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory and (after emerging it), run
nspluginwrapper -i ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I just did exactly that (download, unpack, stop firefox, mv ....,
nspluginwrapper..., restart firefox on a known flash-dependent site) as
a check, and it worked as expected.

(For this to work, note that you will need a fair number of the
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xxx packages if you don't already have
them, but they are all quick binary installs.  Why?  Because
libflashplayer.so is: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version
1 (SYSV), stripped and it uses things like:
libX11.so.6 => /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libX11.so.6)
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-- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)