Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:54:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: flashplugin9? Message-ID: <20090222235403.GA43734@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com> References: <20090222214720.GA43510@thought.org> <49A1CB91.9020106@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > > > If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and > > flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to > > pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. > > linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but > > still YouTube won't work. > > > > Is there an "all-linix" port or set of ports to use? Or is there another > > way of getting both audio+video? > > > > gary > > > > Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . > > graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? > > Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the > plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You > will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one > for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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