Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:30:02 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flashplugin 11.2r202.238 Message-ID: <20121004183002.GB70000@kontrol.kode5.net> In-Reply-To: <20121004110258.3a188bdb@scorpio> References: <20121001143321.461de2b2@scorpio> <506A9E3E.1020209@gmail.com> <506D8F5E.2020800@freebsdnorth.com> <20121004110258.3a188bdb@scorpio>
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[ Jerry wrote on Thu 4.Oct'12 at 11:02:58 -0400 ] > On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:30:06 -0800 > Beech Rintoul articulated: > > > On 10/1/2012 11:56 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > > 01.10.2012 21:33, Jerry wrote: > > >> I just finished installing "linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238". > > >> For some inexplicable reason, it is no longer working. I followed > > >> the directions in "UPDATING" but without success. I even cleared > > >> out the entries in the "~/.mozilla/plugins" directory and reran > > >> the command without results. In fact, now nothing is listed in the > > >> directory and flash still doesn't work. Every time I reach a page > > >> that requires flash, I am greeted with a message telling me I need > > >> to download and install it. > > > > > > Could you please rerun nspluginwrapper -v -a -i? Is there anything > > > in the system log? > > > > I ran into the same problem. Tried for two days to get flash working > > on a client's FreeBSD box. No go. I finally just copied > > npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into .mozilla/plugins, firefox found it > > and now all works fine. seems nspluginwrapper -v -a -i is not > > populating .mozilla/plugins. > > Did you check the info at: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html > > In particular, I ran into a problem with creating the link. I received > an error message stating the link existed; however, even if it did it > was not working correctly. I corrected it with this: > > ln -s -F /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ > > I then ran: "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" and all is well, or at least as > well as can be expected with Flash and FreeBSD. Not exactly a marriage > made in heaven. Yes, it is a bit of a PITA isn't it. I wish flashplayer could be replaced be something better that works on UNIX and all platforms for that matter. Maybe HTML 5 will enable people to do without this crap.
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