Flash plugin ?

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sun Aug 17 16:23:12 UTC 2014


On 08/17/14 11:03, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>
> On 17/08/2014 12:58, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:56:27 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>
>>> one of my most haunted webpages is
>>> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=htx&product=N0R&overlay=11111111&loop=yes 
>>>
>>> to view local weather in motion .... when I just visited under FreeBSD
>>> 9.3, FF31, both 64-bit, it says it needs a plugin to proceed, but
>>> doesn't tell me what plugin. I guessed Adobe flash & 'pkg install
>>> flash-0.9.5', but still nogo (it was a WAG ....) .... any help w/ what
>>> plugin or package I need to view this webpage ? TIA ....
>> Follow the instructions in the Handbook, there are more
>> steps involved than just installing a package:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
>>
>> See 7.2.1.2.
>>
>> The mentioned page works for me (FreeBSD 8.2, Opera 11.50,
>> linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5), so it should also work
>> with today's software. :-)
>>
>>
> linux-f10-flashplugin is currently unavailable as one of its dependent 
> package is marked as forbidden, i've not been able to get around it 
> with the usual tricks so i've installed it against the c6-linux 
> emulation package instead of the f10 one
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Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh .... that clarifies much :-/ .... can both of those 
emulations be installed at the same time, or is it remove f10, then 
install c6 ?

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