Closed
Bug 139315
(PluginDocLinux)
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Plugin documentation for Linux
Categories
(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: hendikins, Assigned: hendikins)
References
Details
This bug is for Linux Plugin documentation only, bug 104506 is the general bug Adding dep. to Bug 104506 (Working plug-ins status and files needed for Mozilla)
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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Feel free to add Linux-specific plugin information to this bug, including crossover related stuff :) I'll get around to this when I get back from Melbourne on the 29th
Blocks: PluginDoc
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Flash Plugin for Mozilla : Just go to www.macromedia.com get flash_linux.tar.gz untar it and put libflashplayer.so & ShockwaveFlash.class files into /path/to/mozilla/plugins for a general install or to ~/.mozilla/plugins for a local install Real Player 8 Plugin Mozilla: Go to you realplayer installation directory and find raclass.zip & rpnp.so to the same one of the directories above Quicktime & Windows Media Player These plugings are not natively supported on linux but you can download CrossOver plugin from www.codeweavers.com and install that plugins too . Installation is fairly easy.
Comment 3•22 years ago
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Almost no plugins work when using a gcc 3 build... They fail like the Java plugin: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /y/mozilla/dist/bin/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/y/mozilla/dist/bin/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID]
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Updated•22 years ago
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Alias: PluginDocLinux
Comment 4•22 years ago
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This text is my theory about why "most plugins fail when using a gcc 3 build"... I recently installed the macromedia flash plugin 5.0.50 for mozilla 1.0 (compiled with gcc 3.0) on a linux x86 system. But when a page containing a flash object was loaded, mozilla crashed with the following error: /usr/local//lib/mozilla-1.0.0/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /home/after/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: undefined symbol: __builtin_vec_new A quick search in the shared libraries showed that __builtin_vec_new is defined in: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 (which is a symlink to libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so) The debian package page for this library [1] says that this lib is needed by "C++ programs built with the gnu/egcs compiler version 1.1.x". For example, some (all ?) versions of the sun's java runtime environment require this library. For an obscure reason, the flash plugin was unable to find the symbol __builtin_vec_new in /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. One of the solutions to this problem is to set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable: $ env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 mozilla With the above command, the flash plugin does not crash mozilla anymore. Explanation: libstdc++, the gnu standard c++ library [2], is included in the gcc package, and it is said in [2] that "older snapshots of this library were given the name libstdc++-2.9x up until the release of gcc 3" (this old version is named "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" on my system). This explains all: gcc 2.9x includes libstdc++-2.9x, gcc 3 includes libstdc++-v3, but the flash plugin needs libstdc++-2.9x... So, the correct statement is not "most plugins fail when using a gcc 3 build", but "most plugins fail when libstdc++-2.9x is not found". Those plugins can work on a system on which gcc 3 is installed: just install libstdc++-2.9x (this will *not* conflict with the already installed libstdc++-v3) and set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable so that it points to the libstdc++-2.9x shared library... Libstdc++-2.9x source can be found here [3]. Binary versions of this library are also available, check [1] and [4]. [1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/oldlibs/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1.html [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/ [3] ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/old-releases/ [4] http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2.html
Comment 5•22 years ago
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Oops ! Please iqnore my previous message :) I have written it when I was not aware of the fundamental reason of the problem (gcc 3.x and gcc 2.9x have different name mangling as well as a different ABI). However, I still confirm that the macromedia flash plugin 5.0r50 (for linux) *works* with mozilla 1.0.x (compiled with gcc 3.0) when the LD_PRELOAD environment variable points to a 2.9x version of libstdc++.
Comment 6•21 years ago
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One can download RP9 compatable codecs for realplayer. I've tried to use them with Galeon 1.3.something (not Mozilla). Real player is not perfect, but often works embeded in the browser. I don't know how much effect using the patches has; I haven't investigated this. http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/unixplayer/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=3128&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5 I guess the information should be added to: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html Happy to follow your click through, BTW, Hendikins. rjones-mzlaSPAM (e-mail address) icoSPAM,vivaSPAM,orgLOVELYSPAM
Comment 8•20 years ago
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Linux plugin list does not mention mozilla-bonobo: Mozilla plugin for using bonobo components (GNOME). Can work in any platform where GNOME works. http://www.nongnu.org/moz-bonobo/
Comment 9•19 years ago
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Hello, Could you please add the VLC media player plugin (GNU/Linux and Windows). http://www.videolan.org/vlc
Comment 10•19 years ago
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I agree with comment 8 - I just discoved mozilla-bonobo and it's REALLY nice!
Comment 11•19 years ago
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To install Adobe SVG viewer in Firefox, follow the instructions on http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#SVG, but replace all occurences of "mozilla" in install.sh to "firefox" before running it. Berend
Comment 12•15 years ago
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This bug does not seem to be tracking plugindoc.mozdev.org work any more. Hendy has done several revamps since 2005. If you disagree with this closing please reopen.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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