Flash needs one additional step to work with Chromium?

[blackhaz]

Installed linux-f10-flashplugin11, did nspluginwrapper -v -a -i (tried both as root and as a normal user), however Chromium still couldn't see the plugin. Rebuilt Chromium from ports, still nothing. It only recognized the plugin once I have manually moved npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins. This step is not documented anywhere and I have accidentally stumbled across this hint on some other forum. I wonder if something needs updating somewhere, or is it just me?

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.my.domain 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:46:30 UTC 2012     
[email]root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

 

[cpm@]

From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#moz-flash-plugin:

This version will require the following link to be created:

# ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/

The /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins directory will have to be created manually if it does not exist on the system.

Once the right Flash port, according to the FreeBSD version you run, is installed, the plugin must be installed by each user with nspluginwrapper:

% nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

Create a symlink is enough. Don't move the file.

 

[blackhaz]

Although I can't be 100% sure, but I think I did it before. Didn't work for Chromium (at least for me.)

 

[cpm@]

Check if exist using ls(1):
# ls -s /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so

If not appear listed in above directory, then follow the instruction I added in my first comment

 

[blackhaz]

Looks like its name is different for some reason:

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/
total 136
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 125720 Dec 20 13:03 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 20 11:31 rhythmbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Dec 20 11:31 symlinks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 16:52 totem
$

And yes, I've tried nspluginwrapper as a user after the flash port has been installed.

 

[cpm@]

Looks like its name is different for some reason:

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/
total 136
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 125720 Dec 20 13:03 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 20 11:31 rhythmbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Dec 20 11:31 symlinks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 16:52 totem
$

And yes, I've tried nspluginwrapper as a user after the flash port has been installed.

Remove symlink in /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins:
# rm /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Create new symlink instead:
# ln -s -F /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/

Seems nspluginwrapper -v -a -i is not populating .mozilla/plugins. This command creates npwrapper.libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins.

Read for more information:/usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper/pkg-message.