Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:50:07 +0100 From: Jamie Griffin <griffin8j@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ongoing problems w/ flash for Opera/FF31 .... Message-ID: <5413162F.4000303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5412FFC1.4020404@hiwaay.net> References: <54106E39.7030401@hiwaay.net> <5411A1B0.7080008@hiwaay.net> <5411A773.3000103@gmail.com> <5411BB20.1070709@hiwaay.net> <5412C4AE.5020908@gmail.com> <5412FFC1.4020404@hiwaay.net>
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On 12/09/2014 15:14, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 09/12/14 05:02, Jamie Griffin wrote: >> >> On 11/09/2014 16:09, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> >>> On 09/11/14 08:45, Jamie Griffin wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/09/2014 14:20, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sooooooooo tacky to self-reply, but I persist .... It looks to me >>>>> like this port is locked-up *fried* .... it depends on another f10 >>>>> package which is apparently broken, & probably won't be fixed, >>>>> since f10 support ended about 6 years ago .... Am I reading this >>>>> correctly ? If so, are there any plans to try to work around this >>>>> issue w/ this port ? I have a newer curl installed, many versions >>>>> later than the F10 version, why can't the port use my newer >>>>> installed version ? FF & Opera both need this plugin to render >>>>> flash correctly (& yes, I acknowledge that flash *sux*), I sure >>>>> wish this would get fixed :-) .... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Please see this site https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports and follow >>>> the instructions there for either linux-f10 or linux-c6 base which >>>> also includes the flash plugin setup instructions. >>> >>> >>> Thanks for your prompt & precise response. It puts me in a bit of a >>> bind, since I have never used github :-/ .... I'm on FBSD 9.3, so no >>> linux-c6 (apparently) available. My distinfo in my >>> linux-f10-flashplugin ports directory already shows the same info on >>> the webpage, i.e. I seem to be already using the software referenced >>> above, non ? Please advise & thanks for any guidance you can provide >>> :-) .... >>> >>> >> >> You just install git and clone the repo and then follow the commands >> in the README. >> >> However, I would recommend using youtube-dl and/or mpv. You can >> stream the videos from youtube with either program or you can >> download the file and watch with vlc, for example. That is what I do. >> Flash player is awful software. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > I quite agree on flash, however, several sites useful to me use it. > Some of these are U.S. Gov't sites (NOAA, NWS), which I suspect aren't > likely to change on a whim, especially my whim :-) .... Thus, I would > like to get flash working if possible. I am already using the version > of the flash plugin referenced above, & it is a nogo for me. I was > mostly just checking on the status of that port, seeing if it was > still active, etc. Latest version posted in late August, so it seems > alive. It might be being maintained only for newer FBSD (10 or 11) > .... if so, it would be nice to know that .... > > The version of flash may be the same but some of its dependencies may not be. I have used that method to install the f10 flash-plugin from that site recently and use it currently. That's all the info I can give on it.
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