Flash plugin ?

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/17/14 10:58, Roland Smith wrote:
> 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

I just tried following the directions on the above URL for opera w/ 
flash & I get the following:


\===>  Found saved configuration for linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.346
===>   linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.346 depends on file: 
/usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
=> install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/11.2r202.346.
=> Attempting to fetch 
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.346/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
fetch: 
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.346/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz: 
Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch 
http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/flashplugin/11.2r202.346/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
fetch: 
http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/flashplugin/11.2r202.346/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz: 
Not Found
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/11.2r202.346 and 
try again.
*** [do-fetch] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin11.
*** [install] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin11.
[root at kabini1, linux-f10-flashplugin11, 11:59:01am] 419 %

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