howto flash me?

[Thomas Donnelly]

Chuck Robey wrote:
> OK, I'm convinced now that we have no acceptable solution to get a 
> current flash player working under FreeBSD.  I have here in the same 
> room with me a Gentoo box, and I see from their package system that 
> there are at least two different paths for getting flash working.  
> One's the Adobe Flash player.  Anyone knkow why that won't work under 
> FreeBSD on Linux browser?
>
> Second option is either a gpl flash library called GPL flash (not a 
> long stretch for naming, is it?)  There are even some tracks to go to 
> get some Adobe soource code.
>
> All I want here is hints, if anyone knows that one particular path 
> might be easier for porting than another, or possibly more compatible, 
> or for any reason a better platform for me to take on as a project, 
> I'd really appreciate a hint, because while I can port stuff ok, I've 
> never been all that plugged into the world of web applications, and I 
> probably don't know many things about web apps that you probably 
> consider as obvious.  So, I'll take on the porting job if you can just 
> dredge up any hints you have heard, cause i don't want to waste time 
> on running up blind alleys.
>
> Thanks.  I'll begin porting tomorrow, you have that long.
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Couple of ways to do it
http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:browserplugins
If you want to use a linux browser

http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php
If you want to use KDE and linux plugin wrapper.

I find that the best way is to install wine-doors 
(/usr/ports/emulators/wine-doors) and run Firefox 2.0 and install flash 
in that. I can play bloons tower defense 2 semi-comfortably in it, 
granted the machine has a moderate amount of power.

According to Adobe, FreeBSD isn't "cool" enough (actually just not 
enough requests, which if you look at the forums is quite a lie) So we 
are forced to use a linux hack.

-=Tom Donnelly