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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:54:03 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: flashplugin9?
Message-ID:  <20090222235403.GA43734@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com>
References:  <20090222214720.GA43510@thought.org> <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and
> > flashplugin-9.  So far, no joy.  I have firefox2, and when I try to
> > pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies.
> > linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but
> > still YouTube won't work.
> >
> > Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use?  Or is there another
> > way of getting both audio+video?  
> >
> > gary
> >   
> 
> Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it.

	Okay; i wasn't clear on that... .

> 
> graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube.

	Maybe I need up portupgrade.  I use mostly konqueror for the web;
	things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes.  Should I
	pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers?

> 
> Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the
> plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You
> will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one
> for the plugins to work.

	Sorry, you lost me.  Which is the ``new one''?  The only mozilla 
	plugins dir in ~kline I find is  ~/.mozilla/plugins/ .  There are
	data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree.


	gary



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