Freebsd - Flash in Firefox
I’ve been snooping around on youtube a lot lately, something I felt like doing here on my workstation as well. I’m running , and since there is no native flash plug in, making flash run isn’t as easy as it should be. Last time I gave it a try was about a year ago, without any real luck. Today I felt like giving it a try, so I googled a bit, and 5 minutes later I could watch youtube videos.
I found an article on , translated here’s what I did:
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7/ && make install clean
Check the checkbox, to include the nspluginwrapper, or:
cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper/ && make install clean
Once that is done, all you need to do is to configure the nspluginwrapper by doing:
nspluginwrapper -i
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
If the execution of nspluginwrapper fails, with a libgtk error, install linux-gtk2.
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2/ && make install clean
Now you’re good to go. If you want to be able to watch embedded videos with mplayer, install the mplayer plug in as well.
cd /usr/ports/www/mplayer-plugin/ && make install clean
This works for linux-opera as well, but not as good as in firefox (not that it is working as it should there). It is lagging much more, and barely usable in my opinion.
Posted January 10, 2008 in