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* [gentoo-user]  flash with seamonkey
@ 2007-04-23 18:14 James
  2007-04-23 19:33 ` Abhay Kedia
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-23 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello,


MY seamonkey browser does not work with flash plugins. Firefox
works fine.

Searching around, I did not find anything that fixes the problem.

Here are my options:

www-client/seamonkey-1.1.1  USE="crypt gnome ipv6 java ldap postgres -debug
-mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -xforms
-xinerama -xprint" 

net-www/netscape-flash
     Available versions:  7.0.68 9.0.31.0
     Installed versions:  9.0.31.0(17:30:20 03/13/07)(-debug)


What did I miss?


James



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* Re: [gentoo-user]  flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-23 18:14 [gentoo-user] flash with seamonkey James
@ 2007-04-23 19:33 ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-24  0:34   ` [gentoo-user] " James
  2007-04-24  0:37   ` James
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Abhay Kedia @ 2007-04-23 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Monday 23 Apr 2007 11:44:45 pm James wrote:
>
> What did I miss?
>
Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page? Also did you 
try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see if it throws any errors 
at you?

-- 
Regards,
Abhay

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* [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-23 19:33 ` Abhay Kedia
@ 2007-04-24  0:34   ` James
  2007-04-24 21:21     ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-24  0:37   ` James
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-24  0:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > What did I miss?

> Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page?

NO,

I found them, but, I'm not sure how to install a tar.gz file on gentoo,
and have it as part of the regularly maintained files. This is very likely the
problem. I never thoght that something like that would not be part
of the ebuild, as flash just works as part of the firefox ebuild.

> Also did you  try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see 
> if it throws any errors at you?

I'll give this a whirl and see if any additional errors are given.


James








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* [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-23 19:33 ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-24  0:34   ` [gentoo-user] " James
@ 2007-04-24  0:37   ` James
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-24  0:37 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:


> try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see if it throws any errors 
> at you?


It just says:



No running windows found

and everything works as it does launching from the KDE menu system.

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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-24  0:34   ` [gentoo-user] " James
@ 2007-04-24 21:21     ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-26 17:57       ` James
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Abhay Kedia @ 2007-04-24 21:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Tuesday 24 Apr 2007 6:04:19 am James wrote:
> Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > What did I miss?
> >
> > Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page?
>
> NO,
>
That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about 
your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your 
~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have 
flash mentioned under about:plugins now.

-- 
Regards,
Abhay

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* [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-24 21:21     ` Abhay Kedia
@ 2007-04-26 17:57       ` James
  2007-04-26 20:22         ` James
  2007-04-26 20:33         ` Abhay Kedia
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-26 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:



> That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about 
> your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your 
> ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have 
> flash mentioned under about:plugins now.

OK

this dir contains these:
drwx------  4 james  152 Apr 23 14:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 james 1640 Apr 26 13:46 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 james 1043 Apr 26 09:21 appreg
drwx------  4 james  136 Apr 26 09:21 default
drwx------  3 james  144 Apr 23 14:08 firefox
-rw-------  1 james  534 Apr 26 13:40 pluginreg.dat


Now make a symlink from what to what?


James





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* [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-26 17:57       ` James
@ 2007-04-26 20:22         ` James
  2007-04-26 20:36           ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-26 20:33         ` Abhay Kedia
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-26 20:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:


> > That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about 
> your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your 
> ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have 
> flash mentioned under about:plugins now.

I just found this page:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html#nswrapper-install-src

3/4ths the way down the page is says:

Flash Player 9.0 (nspluginwrapper)
Version: 7.0r68
SeaMonkey 1.1a, Firefox 2.0: Works Well
FAQ: Flash Player FAQ
After installing nspluginwrapper, install Flash Player to a location of your
choice (/usr/lib/browser-plugins/ is suggested), then run the following command:

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so


Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications.
I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu,
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+

James





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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-26 17:57       ` James
  2007-04-26 20:22         ` James
@ 2007-04-26 20:33         ` Abhay Kedia
  2007-04-27 15:47           ` James
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Abhay Kedia @ 2007-04-26 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote:
>
> Now make a symlink from what to what?
>
You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins

/opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so

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Regards,
Abhay

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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-26 20:22         ` James
@ 2007-04-26 20:36           ` Abhay Kedia
       [not found]             ` <loom.20070427T172518-357@post.gmane.org>
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From: Abhay Kedia @ 2007-04-26 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote:
>
> Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications.
> I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu,
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
>
Didn't see this post of yours earlier. Sorry for the unnecessary noise.

What arch are you running? Is it x86 or amd64? You have installed firefox-bin 
or you have compiled firefox yourself?

-- 
Regards,
Abhay

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* [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
  2007-04-26 20:33         ` Abhay Kedia
@ 2007-04-27 15:47           ` James
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: James @ 2007-04-27 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd <at> gmail.com> writes:


> You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins

> /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
> /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so


OK


 cd ~/.mozilla/


 ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt .
 ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so .

results in the dir looking like this:


drwx------  4 james  224 Apr 27 11:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 james 1640 Apr 27 11:36 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 james 1043 Apr 27 11:37 appreg
drwx------  4 james  136 Apr 27 11:37 default
drwx------  3 james  144 Apr 23 14:08 firefox
lrwxrwxrwx  1 james   37 Apr 27 11:30 flashplayer.xpt ->
/opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx  1 james   39 Apr 27 11:30 libflashplayer.so ->
/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
-rw-------  1 james  534 Apr 27 11:38 pluginreg.dat


Still does not work.

I exited and logged back into KDE....


What did I miss?
I have firefox-bin installed and working but seamonkey
is not the binary version. I wanted to get flash working
on this amd64 system by correctly compiling and setting
up the files. 

Perhaps I need to manually download the plugin sources,
put them under /usr/portage/somewhere; edit a few
files and rebuild the sources?

ideas or a wiki would be keen.

James



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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: flash with seamonkey
       [not found]             ` <loom.20070427T172518-357@post.gmane.org>
@ 2007-04-27 18:29               ` Abhay Kedia
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Abhay Kedia @ 2007-04-27 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Friday 27 Apr 2007 8:56:57 pm James wrote:
>
> amd64
>
> > You have installed firefox-bin  or you have compiled firefox yourself?
>
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
>      Available versions:  2.0.0.3
>      Installed versions:  2.0.0.3
>
In order to use 32 bit plugins (like flash) on 64 bit browsers, you need to 
use nspluginwrapper. Look at the following link for firefox and flash 9.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Flash_9_and_Firefox

Though the link talks about firefox, the method is same for seamonkey.

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Regards,
Abhay

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