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Date:      Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:53:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        Greg Miller <greglmiller@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info>
Subject:   Re: flash for 9-beta3
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110081547200.9628@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wS5Xuh22s9%2BWAxr5CeX6n-4SLVFvUEDMM-0ksaHB3dN_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Greg Miller <greglmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/8/11, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote:
>>> as recently had issues in this regard, to install it can I just use
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html or there is
>>> another guide ?
>>
>> I've just noticed that I never actually added the symbolic link, but
>> I've otherwise followed the 8.x instructions you linked to in the
>> handbook, and my Flash is working nicely on 9.0B3.
>
> Every time you update the port, you must re-run nspluginwrapper. Seems
> like the port itself is sort of broken by not doing this by default
> with the post-install script.

nspluginwrapper needs to be run as the end user.  The port post-install 
could loop through all users looking for links to update, but that seems 
questionably secure.  A script that makes it easier but doesn't run 
automatically, like perl-after-upgrade, maybe.



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