From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 09:15:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F127A1065672 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:15:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from smtpfb1-g21.free.fr (smtpfb1-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229E18FC08 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr (smtp6-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.6]) by smtpfb1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8D02E1DC for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:57:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from emphyrio.blackend.org (unknown [88.179.1.53]) by smtp6-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01D7822D7; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:57:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from emphyrio.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emphyrio.blackend.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1P8w7ok097243; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:58:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@emphyrio.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by emphyrio.blackend.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p1P8w6iP097242; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:58:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:58:06 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20110225085806.GA8711@emphyrio.blackend.org> References: <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated instructions in the Handbook for installing Flash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:15:34 -0000 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:34:46PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > I tried following the instructions for installing Flash from > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html > and found they appear to be outdated. The firefox plugins directory > for 3.6 appears to be /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins doesn't exist. Also, I had to run > nspluginwrapper -v -i > /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/libflashplayer.so to install it, since > -a didn't seem to look in the global plugins directory. I guess > avoiding the symlink step and just using the original file would work > too. Actually /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins is still used for firefox plugins: % ls -al /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins total 48 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 19 fév 17:47 . drwxr-xr-x 70 root wheel 43008 25 fév 09:46 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 19 fév 17:20 gecko-mediaplayer lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 60 19 fév 17:47 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 19 fév 17:20 symlinks as you can see gecko-mediaplayer installs its directory there. /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins is not created by Firefox installation, so if you just installed Firefox and you try to install Flash, you'll have to create that directory. So I'd prefer to add a note on the need of (the creation) this directory instead of changing/removing the whole section. -- Marc