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Plug-ins for Opera on FreeBSD

As of Opera 9.10, it is possible to use any Linux plug-in with the native Opera for FreeBSD version, including Flash and Adobe Reader.

The current procedure is not fully automated, but requires the following steps:

  1. Make sure you have the x11/linux-xorg-libs port installed.
  2. Download the latest releases of Opera for both FreeBSD and Linux as compressed tar files, and extract them. The FreeBSD package is for FreeBSD 6.x and requires Qt.
  3. Copy operapluginwrapper from the Linux package to the FreeBSD package.

To run Opera directly from the package without installing:

  1. copy libnpp.so within the FreeBSD package to a new location:
    cp plugins/libnpp.so bin/libnpp.so
  2. Run Opera: ./opera

If instead you want to install Opera for all users:

  1. Run install: ./install.sh
  2. Copy libnpp.so manually to the Opera binary directory:
    cp plugins/libnpp.so /usr/local/share/opera/bin/
  3. Run Opera: /usr/local/bin/opera

The actions described here do not affect Java; you can still run Java applets with the native version of Java (such as diablo-jdk or diablo-jre). The path to use is /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/. If you experience problems, it could be that you are using a package that is compiled for a different version of FreeBSD; use the .4 package with FreeBSD 6.

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