From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 04:56:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1C116A402 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992F713C458 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so98049ana for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:56:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=reFhlghmqgrcCnoPuslqKoCEn0LFPq0guq1WtTWzNbe/gBFjvcvHRcNMWJiV/9t8BaxAHyZIDxskqjl4PNEQ2bJK1/0Wk68Wr1Im8brHZj6mZbvHJSTCpYdDf1V+H88dJJi6Wq5nOYBZAwFgH3mIuYjoFEvz099TL8P62TfdPW4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I//58ai9DPu0KkET4vpbTFV+KGLf1B9xjKNxMmJKOlXPjIGTCLA3RDNcU2QWs4e6nM1RmtvF8DkKfRnnxjdWPtNc1GUqRVdwwHSiJGiePN8+pN6p6hjIfC8U0AObcbTlnB2sMmLn9pVYkMnshSyUUbEtZv2mk7NlOrHuTm5BURA= Received: by 10.100.178.7 with SMTP id a7mr112627anf.1175661061572; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.119.14 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <294439d20704032130r64adca9em384d250477a3e265@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:56 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" To: "Joseph Marah" In-Reply-To: <252723.3693.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14989d6e0703300503v86cb203r78dc256fac540e05@mail.gmail.com> <252723.3693.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot pkg_add linux-flashplugin7 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: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:56:12 -0000 On 3/31/07, Joseph Marah wrote: > I have tried to a couple of times to install a Micromedia-alike flash plugin for > FreeBSD but failed. So far I have > successfully installed the linux-pluginwrapper as a requirement at > /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. So I tried /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 and > issued the command pkg-add -r linux-flashplugin7. The system attempted to > download the file from ftp site but came back saying the file linux-flashplugin7 did > not exist. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? [...] You are confusing between the "ports" system, and the pre-compiled "packages" available on FreeBSD. In a nutshell, ports allow you to download, build and install applications from source, while packages are pre-compiled binaries for your particular platform. To add it through ports, you need to do (as root): # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 # make install clean Reading the relevant section (6.2.4) of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html) will help. Best, Amarendra