Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:27:21 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Flash plugin ? Message-ID: <53F0D7E9.6060808@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140817155855.GA97753@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53F0986B.2000604@hiwaay.net> <20140817135824.78df3203.freebsd@edvax.de> <53F0AA33.3050605@hiwaay.net> <20140817151151.5527a1bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53F0B338.2020608@hiwaay.net> <20140817155855.GA97753@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/17/14 10:58, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:50:48AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 08/17/14 08:11, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:12:19 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> 2nd, the make failed looking for some fedora >>>> compat files .... How come these weren't fetched & installed on the fly ? >>> Oh, I thought that would be a dependency... install the >>> linux_base-f10 port, it should include the dependencies. >>> Make sure you have Linux ABI in the kernel (should be the >>> default) and check if your /etc/fstab has >>> >>> linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 >>> proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 >>> >>> included. Remember: This is the _Linux_ version of "Flash" >>> running via FreeBSD's alternative binary interface, so it >>> expects certain Linux facilities to be present. The port >>> mentioned provides those. >> There was/is a pkg for this, I installed that & proceeded, it eventually >> finished. Now I am looking around for the actual flash plugin, mozilla >> doesn't have one (!!!!), any idea where to go for that ? TIA .... > Have you followed the directions in > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html completely? > Including running nspluginwrapper? > > You might want to remind the people running the website in question that the > nineties have been over for some time now. Even Adobe is abandoning Flash (at > least on mobile devices) in favor os HTML5. > > > Roland Word dat on old tech, it's a US-gov website (NOAA or subset), they might still be using that 20 years from now. I have followed those directions completely, AFAIK, I just can't find the actual flash plugin to load & use .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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