Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:17:10 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: flashplugin Message-ID: <4AE63C06.7070204@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0910261304m4c5bad27qe781976afc8f8c4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE3944A.4090602@videotron.ca> <4AE40A00.3040607@infracaninophile.co.uk> <eeef1a4c0910261304m4c5bad27qe781976afc8f8c4e@mail.gmail.com>
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Freminlins wrote: > 2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > > > >> % pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 >> Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: >> >> Depends on: >> Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 >> Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g >> Dependency: linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 >> Dependency: linux-f10-libssh2-0.18 >> Dependency: linux-f10-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22 >> Dependency: linux-f10-curl-7.19.4_4 >> Dependency: linux-f10-nspr-4.7.4 >> Dependency: linux-f10-sqlite3-3.5.9_1 >> Dependency: linux-f10-nss-3.12.2.0 >> >> > > Why the hell the Flash plugin (for Linux) needs openldap and sqlite I do not > know. SASL too for that matter. > > I must admit I gave up ever getting Flash to work RELIABLY on FreeBSD a long > time ago. It's just too hard, too much work, and not worth the misery of > installing heaps of crud just to get a flipping browser plugin working > unreliably. > I haven't tried your last suggestion yet... but it will be the last... I'm only wanted to be able to use it for my own development stuff - I have to time for the youtubes and mindless twitterings. Fortunately, as much as I hate MS, flash does work on it. But adobe and ms muck up the system so that it lumbers along like a humpty-Dumpty overstuffed S-car-go! ;-)
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