nspluginwrapper
A cross-platform NPAPI plugin viewer

License

nspluginwrapper is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file "COPYING" that is included in the distribution for details.

Overview

nspluginwrapper consists in a proxy plugin and a viewer for NPAPI compatible plugins. It makes it possible to use 32-bit x86 plugins like Adobe Flash Player on other platforms like Linux/x86_64, *BSD and even Linux/ppc.

Quick build notes

To simplify the build of the 32-bit viewer, a minimal subset of LSB Desktop 3.1 is included in this distribution. Hence, you only have to proceed as follows:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Or, if you prefer from a source package: $ rpm --rebuild nspluginwrapper.src.rpm

Requirements and Installation

A Mozilla based browser built with GTK 2 support is currently required for proper operation. An alternative is Konqueror but it does not yet support the npruntime scripting API.

On package installation, 32-bit plugins are automatically recognized provided they are available in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.

You can manually install/remove/update plugins with "nspluginwrapper".

usage: nspluginwrapper [flags] [command [plugin(s)]]

   -h --help               print this message
   -a --auto               set automatic mode for plugins discovery
   -l --list               list plugins currently installed
   -u --update             update plugin(s) currently installed

-i --install [FILE(S)] install plugin(s) -r --remove [FILE(S)] remove plugin(s)

[plugin(s)] are full paths to actual plugin binaries (e.g. nppdf.so for Acrobat Reader, libflashplayer.so for Flash).

Compatibility List

Please bear in mind this is BETA software.

The following plugins work reasonnably well:

- Acrobat Reader      5.0.9
- Acrobat Reader      7.0.1
- DejaVu Libre        3.5.14
- Flash Player        7.0
- Flash Player        9.0b2
- Linux J2K           0.0.2
- Mplayerplug-in      2.80
- Mplayerplug-in      3.25
- Real Player         8.0
- Real Player         10.0.5
- Tcl plugin          3.1

- Squeak VM plugin 3.7

Broken or partially working:

- Real Player         8.0
- Adobe SVG           3.01x88

History

Please consult the file "NEWS" for the release history. An auto-generated "ChangeLog" is also available in this distribution.

Author

Gwenole Beauchesne,
<gb.public@free.fr>