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Date:      Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@riderway.com>
To:        John <nesredep@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper
Message-ID:  <4734DA4C.90702@riderway.com>
In-Reply-To: <4734D8B0.1060200@riderway.com>
References:  <cff9f2d10711091320q7825f190r8dc373b80155a9bd@mail.gmail.com> <4734D8B0.1060200@riderway.com>

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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> John wrote:
>> I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system.  Making good
>> progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do
>> flash.  Definite showstopper, for me.  Ok, then I tried to use the
>> linuxpluginwrapper approach, and it didn't work.
>>
>> It made me recall, in reading up on FreeBSD, I did see where somebody
>> installed both Firefox and Linx-firefox.
>>
>> So before I do battle with this Linux wrapper approach, I wondered if I
>> would be better off simply installing the Linux-firefox?
>>
>> Is that easier?  More likely to work?
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-07/msg01919.html
----> cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6 ; make install clean

There is now:
cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 ; make install clean
which you should use instead -- its newer :)


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