howto flash me?

[Chuck Robey]

Thomas Donnelly wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but they distribute sources, so it's portable.  I thought to give 
it a try, if there isn't a better FreeBSD method.  I understood that 
installing a Linux mozilla/filefox will only get you the older Flash7, 
not the newer flash9.  I suppose the wine-doors would work, but I have a 
real allergy to running MS software, and that's the stuff, at least, 
it's meant to run under Windows, right?  I would avoid that.

> -=Tom Donnelly
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