From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 14:15:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A393216A400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail43.e.nsc.no (mail43.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B02213C4B4 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.180.139] (062016180139.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.180.139]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail43.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l0REEvgQ001635 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:15:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45BB5DF8.8070104@netscape.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:13:12 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45B907F1.5060402@locolomo.org> <200701271238.53285.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:15:02 -0000 Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> Flash9 is very unstable though, so you'll probably want to stay with >> flash7 for now. > > Since I have had serious problems getting even Flash7 to work, following > instructions found here at the list, could you please summarize the > steps for getting the older Flash version running? I'm begining to > suspect something more is needed than the information I've found. Do > e.g. I have to run firefox under Linux emulation? I think it is not a matter of detailing steps. I have used the "steps" in question many times over in order to get linux-flashplugin7 working with native Firefox, with no luck whatsoever. However, after installing 6.2-RELEASE, I have added some packages with portinstall -PP, and for some reason, linux-flashplugin7 now works on my system. I suspect this happened because my PKG_SITES is set to ftp:.../i386/packages-6-stable/. Most likely, some library was updated, and this did the trick. Wish I knew precisely which update that was. -- Tore