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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:10:32
Message-Id: 1137369867.6006.36.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5 by Holly Bostick
1 Hi,
2
3 (up late I see :)
4
5 On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 00:46 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
6 > Iain Buchanan schreef:
7 > > Hi,
8 > >
9 > > So, I unmerged netscape-flash, deleted any macromedia directories or
10 > > stale flash plugins lying around, and reinstalled netscape-flash.
11 > >
12 > > When I go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ I get the
13 > > firefox message "Additional plugins are required to display all the
14 > > media on this page."
15 > >
16 > > Now what? netscape-flash is the right ebuild for firefox isn't it?
17 >
18 > Yes, apparently it is, I have no problems with Flash that I'm aware of.
19 [snip]
20 > equery belongs libflashplayer.so
21 > [ Searching for file(s) libflashplayer.so in *... ]
22 > net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.61 (/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so)
23 > net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.61
24 > (/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so ->
25 > /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so)
26
27 > I do almost feel that I may have had to make that symlink myself though.
28 > It's so long ago I don't remember anymore.
29
30 hmm,
31
32 $ ls -al /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
33 /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
34
35 the symlink is already there...
36
37 > Hope this helps somewhat (at least you know it can work)
38
39 kind of :) it _was_ working once apon a time... I have the same version
40 of flash also... what version of firefox are you running?
41
42 thanks,
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44 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
45
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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash doesn't work with firefox 1.5 Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>