Flash plugin ?

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:50:48AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> On 08/17/14 08:11, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:12:19 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >> 2nd, the make failed looking for some fedora
> >> compat files .... How come these weren't fetched & installed on the fly ?
> > Oh, I thought that would be a dependency... install the
> > linux_base-f10 port, it should include the dependencies.
> > Make sure you have Linux ABI in the kernel (should be the
> > default) and check if your /etc/fstab has
> >
> > 	linproc  /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw  0  0
> > 	proc     /proc                procfs      rw  0  0
> >
> > included. Remember: This is the _Linux_ version of "Flash"
> > running via FreeBSD's alternative binary interface, so it
> > expects certain Linux facilities to be present. The port
> > mentioned provides those.
> 
> There was/is a pkg for this, I installed that & proceeded, it eventually 
> finished. Now I am looking around for the actual flash plugin, mozilla 
> doesn't have one (!!!!), any idea where to go for that ? TIA ....

Have you followed the directions in
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html completely?
Including running nspluginwrapper?

You might want to remind the people running the website in question that the
nineties have been over for some time now. Even Adobe is abandoning Flash (at
least on mobile devices) in favor os HTML5.


Roland
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