Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:56 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> To: "Joseph Marah" <marahkeh@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot pkg_add linux-flashplugin7 Message-ID: <294439d20704032130r64adca9em384d250477a3e265@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <252723.3693.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <14989d6e0703300503v86cb203r78dc256fac540e05@mail.gmail.com> <252723.3693.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On 3/31/07, Joseph Marah <marahkeh@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have tried to a couple of times to install a Micromedia-alike flash plugin for > FreeBSD but failed. So far I have > successfully installed the linux-pluginwrapper as a requirement at > /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. So I tried /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 and > issued the command pkg-add -r linux-flashplugin7. The system attempted to > download the file from ftp site but came back saying the file linux-flashplugin7 did > not exist. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? [...] You are confusing between the "ports" system, and the pre-compiled "packages" available on FreeBSD. In a nutshell, ports allow you to download, build and install applications from source, while packages are pre-compiled binaries for your particular platform. To add it through ports, you need to do (as root): # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 # make install clean Reading the relevant section (6.2.4) of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html) will help. Best, Amarendra
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