How to uninstall a flash port.
Eduardo Cerejo
ejcerejo at optonline.net
Sun Mar 23 13:55:01 PDT 2008
> >>>>> I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with
> >>>>> SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other
> >>>>> programs?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks...
> >>>>>
> >>>> by the way you can use linux-flash7 instead and if you are using the
> >>>> native FreeBSD firefox and not linux-firefox you have to install and
> >>>> use nspluginwrapper or else it will not work, your second alternative
> >>>> is gnash which works natively with firefox. To use nspluginwrapper
> >>>> you would have to run this after the install.
> >>>> nspluginwrapper -i
> >>>> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> >>>> remember for the linux plugins to embed on the native firefox they
> >>>> need some kind of wrapper. Flashplugin9 will not work with native
> >>>> firefox or linux-firefox and I think it's because the linux emulator
> >>>> uses an old version of linux so we have to wait until it changes to a
> >>>> more current version.
> >>>>
> >> Sorry not a response to the OP but hopefully useful correction:
> >>
> >> %uname -sr
> >> FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
> >> %pkg_info -Ix firefox
> >> firefox-2.0.0.12_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> >> %pkg_info -Ix plugin
> >> linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
> >> nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5 A compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI)
> >> plugins
> >> ...
> >>
> >> I don't actually see a lot of flash as I have flashblock installed but I
> >> can't recall having probs when I have chosen to view it, except it still
> >> doesn't work with youtube. I've just installed wine and win32
> >> firefox+flashplugin for youtube and bbc iplayer and that works fine.
> >
> > Are you trying to tell me that you got flash 9 working? I sure would like to know how to get it working without crashing.
>
> Yes though like I say I also use flashblock so I only see the flash I
> want to. I'm moving house at the moment so I can't try and recreate my
> steps to install it but it was something like:
>
> install firefox, linux-flashplugin9, nspluginwrapper from ports
> locate libflashplayer.so
> run nspluginwrapper
>
> I'll try running without flashblock for a while and see what happens.
>
> Chris
What linux emulator are you running?
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