Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> To: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox flash plug in woes Message-ID: <406413.65757.qm@web50306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0801251130120.28096@libra.sfsu.edu>
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--- KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with > flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous > technology in websites. is there any progress on this? > i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop > Hi there, I have native firefox with flash 7 working fine on FreeBSD 6.2, with java and adobe reader. Note I always install via ports, and they are up to date. Anyway, here is how, you can try it from packages, ie pkg_add -r xxxxx - hopefully that works too, but if it doesnt then installing from ports definately does. [ Note, I just copies/pasted this from my notes, there may be later versions of these packages you can also use - but IIRC I had some problems with them ] install www/firefox install print/acroread7 install java/diablo-jdk15 install www/linux-flashplugin7 kldload linux echo "none /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount -a echo "linux_enable=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Cheers, Tim. We are BSD ... resistance is futile. http://www.freebsd.org/ - http://www.openbsd.org/ - http://www.netbsd.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
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