Ongoing problems w/ flash for Opera/FF31 ....

[Jamie Griffin]

On 12/09/2014 15:14, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> On 09/12/14 05:02, Jamie Griffin wrote:
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>> On 11/09/2014 16:09, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>> On 09/11/14 08:45, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/09/2014 14:20, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sooooooooo tacky to self-reply, but I persist .... It looks to me 
>>>>> like this port is locked-up *fried* .... it depends on another f10 
>>>>> package which is apparently broken, & probably won't be fixed, 
>>>>> since f10 support ended about 6 years ago .... Am I reading this 
>>>>> correctly ? If so, are there any plans to try to work around this 
>>>>> issue w/ this port ? I have a newer curl installed, many versions 
>>>>> later than the F10 version, why can't the port use my newer 
>>>>> installed version ? FF & Opera both need this plugin to render 
>>>>> flash correctly (& yes, I acknowledge that flash *sux*), I sure 
>>>>> wish this would get fixed :-) ....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please see this site https://github.com/xmj/linux-ports and follow 
>>>> the instructions there for either linux-f10 or linux-c6 base which 
>>>> also includes the flash plugin setup instructions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your prompt & precise response. It puts me in a bit of a 
>>> bind, since I have never used github :-/ .... I'm on FBSD 9.3, so no 
>>> linux-c6 (apparently) available. My distinfo in my 
>>> linux-f10-flashplugin ports directory already shows the same info on 
>>> the webpage, i.e. I seem to be already using the software referenced 
>>> above, non ? Please advise & thanks for any guidance you can provide 
>>> :-) ....
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You just install git and clone the repo and then follow the commands 
>> in the README.
>>
>> However, I would recommend using youtube-dl and/or mpv. You can 
>> stream the videos from youtube with either program or you can 
>> download the file and watch with vlc, for example. That is what I do. 
>> Flash player is awful software.
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>
>
> I quite agree on flash, however, several sites useful to me use it. 
> Some of these are U.S. Gov't sites (NOAA, NWS), which I suspect aren't 
> likely to change on a whim, especially my whim :-) .... Thus, I would 
> like to get flash working if possible. I am already using the version 
> of the flash plugin referenced above, & it is a nogo for me. I was 
> mostly just checking on the status of that port, seeing if it was 
> still active, etc. Latest version posted in late August, so it seems 
> alive. It might be being maintained only for newer FBSD (10 or 11) 
> .... if so, it would be nice to know that ....
>
>

The version of flash may be the same but some of its dependencies may 
not be. I have used that method to install the f10 flash-plugin from 
that site recently and use it currently.

That's all the info I can give on it.