Flash plugin ?

Jamie Griffin griffin8j at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 16:03:21 UTC 2014


On 17/08/2014 12:58, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:56:27 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> one of my most haunted webpages is
>> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=htx&product=N0R&overlay=11111111&loop=yes
>> to view local weather in motion .... when I just visited under FreeBSD
>> 9.3, FF31, both 64-bit, it says it needs a plugin to proceed, but
>> doesn't tell me what plugin. I guessed Adobe flash & 'pkg install
>> flash-0.9.5', but still nogo (it was a WAG ....) .... any help w/ what
>> plugin or package I need to view this webpage ? TIA ....
> Follow the instructions in the Handbook, there are more
> steps involved than just installing a package:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
>
> See 7.2.1.2.
>
> The mentioned page works for me (FreeBSD 8.2, Opera 11.50,
> linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5), so it should also work
> with today's software. :-)
>
>
linux-f10-flashplugin is currently unavailable as one of its dependent 
package is marked as forbidden, i've not been able to get around it with 
the usual tricks so i've installed it against the c6-linux emulation 
package instead of the f10 one


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