Flash

Revision as of 05:16, 15 January 2008

Full Flash 9 Support

Full Adobe Flash 9 support can be present by using a Win32 browser and Adobe Flash 9 for Windows in WINE. This was tested with WINE 0.9.53, FreeBSD 6.3-prerelease and Firefox 2.0.0.11. If the browser gets stuck, killing the wine-pthread processes for explorer.exe and wineboot.exe might help.

How to install flash

First install linuxpluginwrapper

# pkg_add -r linuxpluginwrapper

Or with options:

# cd /usr/ports/*/linuxpluginwrapper;make install

Next install flashplugin7

# cd /usr/ports/*/linux-flashplugin7;make install

If it cannot fetch the file download it from here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashplugin/

libmap.conf

Add the following to /etc/libmap.conf

# Flash7 for Firefox
[/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0                 pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash7.so
libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
libstdc  -libc6.2-2.so.3        libstdc  .so.4
libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash7.so


# Flash6 for Konqueror
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]
libpthread.so.0                 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash6.so
libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
libstdc  -libc6.2-2.so.3        libstdc  .so.5
libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash6.so

Konqueror

Go to Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> plugins

Create the directory and link files

# mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Now hit 'Scan for new plugins'

Now go and test it out.

Native Firefox

You will need to patch a file and compile it's all explained on this site:

http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html

Flash is currently usable under FreeBSD by installing the ports linux-flashplugin9 or linux-flashplugin7, linux-firefox and using linux-firefox for viewing flash content. However, flashplugin9 appears to be quite unstable resulting in frequent crashes. Therefore, using flashplugin7 is recommended instead of flashplugin9.

Linux Opera

I've noticed that some things work better under linux-opera than any other browser on FreeBSD. For instance the Asterisk Flash Operator Panel will only work properlly under this port and YouTube works with sound and video under opera!

All you should have to do is install it. Opera will automatically use the libmap.conf file to find the flash libraries and load them.

# pkg_add -r linux-opera

External Links

http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php

See also

The PC-BSD project have released version 1.4 of their FreeBSD based distribution which includes native Flash Player in Konqueror, Firefox and Opera.