Flash plugin ?

Jamie Griffin griffin8j at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 17:22:52 UTC 2014


On 17/08/2014 17:29, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
> On 08/17/14 11:03, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>
>> 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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>
> Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh .... that clarifies much :-/ .... can both of those 
> emulations be installed at the same time, or is it remove f10, then 
> install c6 ?
>

You can only use one linux emulation system but the c6 one isn't ready 
really, I went ahead with it, albeit foolishly, to get some of the linux 
things installed.


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