Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:58:06 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outdated instructions in the Handbook for installing Flash? Message-ID: <20110225085806.GA8711@emphyrio.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank> References: <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank>
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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 and found they appear to be outdated.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
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