nspluginwrapper

A bold step, Flash is still Evil from OpenBSD fans alike. I personally get by my regular work without it. but there are some folks that find Flash attractive .. in any case .. here's a good link.

http://openbsd.stanleylieber.com/txt/openbsd_firefox_flash_player_7.txt

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[ Why ]

Flash is a necessary evil. If you disagree, why keep reading?


[ How ]

This document assumes ports/www/firefox3 is already installed and running
on your system.

Install Fedora and the Opera Flash plugin from ports:

# cd /usr/ports/emulators/fedora && make install && make clean
# cd /usr/ports/www/opera-flashplugin && make install && make clean


Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:

kern.emul.linux=1


Enable Linux compatibility for the running system:

# sysctl -w kern.emul.linux=1


Unpack port-nspluginwrapper.tgz[1] into /usr/ports/www and install:

# cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper && make install && make clean


If the package build fails on your machine you will have to manually
copy the relevant files to their proper locations:

# cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper/w-nspluginwrapper- \
0.9.91.5/fake-i386/usr/local
# cp bin/nspluginwrapper /usr/local/bin/
# cp -R lib/nspluginwrapper /usr/local/lib/


Install Opera's Linux Flash Player in Firefox 3:

# nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Start or restart Firefox to enable the plugin. Enter about:plugins in
the address bar to verify the plugin is installed.


[ Acknowledgments ]

Thanks to Benoit Chesneau[2], seveninety.com[3] and the original authors[4]
for their work on nspluginwrapper.


[ References ]

[1] http://openbsd.stanleylieber.com/ports/www/port-nspluginwrapper.tgz

[2] http://www.nabble.com/-NEW--nspluginwrapper%2C-mozilla-flashplugin \
-td10314619.html#a10314619
http://babilu.metavers.net/openbsd/nspluginwrapper

[3] http://seveninety.com/openbsd/flashplayer9.htm

[4] http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/nspluginwrapper


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Poster's NOTE:

I've tried this on my 4.4 box and i have to do a pkg_delete to take out rpm (RH package manager util) and re-run the opera-flashplugin.

All credits are given to the author of the port nspluginwrapper although the port is not official (based on what I've read *maybe it is*)


Enjoy OpenBSD fans!