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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>
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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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