From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 16:21:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CCFF308 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44C94290F for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-251.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7HGL6bf032218 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:21:06 -0500 Message-ID: <53F0D7E9.6060808@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:27:21 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon , "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: Flash plugin ? 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> In-Reply-To: <20140817155855.GA97753@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:21:10 -0000 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 .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.