From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 23:54:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AB5106566C for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207478FC25 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:54:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n1MNswai061630; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:54:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:54:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:54:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20090222235403.GA43734@thought.org> References: <20090222214720.GA43510@thought.org> <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: flashplugin9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:54:09 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php