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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:27:21 -0500
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Flash plugin ?
Message-ID:  <53F0D7E9.6060808@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140817155855.GA97753@slackbox.erewhon.home>
References:  <53F0986B.2000604@hiwaay.net> <20140817135824.78df3203.freebsd@edvax.de> <53F0AA33.3050605@hiwaay.net> <20140817151151.5527a1bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53F0B338.2020608@hiwaay.net> <20140817155855.GA97753@slackbox.erewhon.home>

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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

Word dat on old tech, it's a US-gov website (NOAA or subset), they might 
still be using that 20 years from now. I have followed those directions 
completely, AFAIK, I just can't find the actual flash plugin to load & 
use ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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