firefox flash plug in woes

[Tim Clewlow]

--- KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> 
> i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with
> flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous
> technology in websites.  is there any progress on this?
> i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop
> 

Hi there, I have native firefox with flash 7 working fine on FreeBSD 6.2, with
java and adobe reader. Note I always install via ports, and they are up to
date.  Anyway, here is how, you can try it from packages, ie pkg_add -r xxxxx -
hopefully that works too, but if it doesnt then installing from ports
definately does.

[ Note, I just copies/pasted this from my notes, there may be later versions of
these packages you can also use - but IIRC I had some problems with them ]

install www/firefox       
install print/acroread7       
install java/diablo-jdk15
install www/linux-flashplugin7       
kldload linux
echo "none            /compat/linux/proc      linprocfs       rw      0      
0" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a
echo "linux_enable=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf                       
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

Cheers, Tim.

We are BSD ... resistance is futile.
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