Using Flash on FreeBSD [Fwd: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8564611]]

[Bill Moran]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:35:53 -0500
Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> When trying to upgrade Flash, I ran into the following in the UPDATING file:
> 
> 20060408:
>   AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin*
>   AUTHOR: hrs at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement
>   explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD.
>   For more details, see
>     http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/.
> 
> So I contacted Adobe, see below, and according to the customer service rep, 
> Astrid C. Villanueva, there is not problem with using Flash on FreeBSD, it's 
> just not supported.  
> 
> Therefore, would it be possible to add it back to the ports?

Update your ports tree.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.