Anyone who has installed Konqueror on Gentoo lately may notice that there isn’t a way to use Netscape plugins for viewing web content. So, how do you view Adobe Flash or PDF documents online? Or, for that matter, what about embedded videos, etc?
The plugins do work on this browser, and they have worked on previous incarnations without a hitch, but now, with the componentized KDE and other factors in play, you have to emerge another package to ensure that you can use these plugins. Its hard to find this info on the net without a bit of searching, and cruising the Gentoo forums will be the only way to get the answer. So, I thought that I’d put this little post together as another online resource for this little annoyance.
For those who would actually like to use Konqueror and view web content like Flash and embedded movies from, perhaps, Apple or other sources, the package is kde-base/nsplugins. Install this and you’ll be able to access the plugins designed for Netscape browsers, such as Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, K-Meleon, Galeon, etc.
I’ve emerged kde-base/nsplugins to no avail. about:plugins does not show flash. Is there anything that you have to do after the emerge?
May be a dumb question, but did the emerge pull in the plugins as well?