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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:00:05 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Outdated instructions in the Handbook for installing Flash?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102241857460.16324@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank>
References:  <1298586886.3150.7.camel@core.nessbank>

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Bruce Cran wrote:

> I tried following the instructions for installing Flash from 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html 
> and found they appear to be outdated.  The firefox plugins directory 
> for 3.6 appears to be /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and 
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins doesn't exist. Also, I had to run 
> nspluginwrapper -v -i 
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/libflashplayer.so to install it, since 
> -a didn't seem to look in the global plugins directory. I guess 
> avoiding the symlink step and just using the original file would work 
> too.

I've always just created /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins.  The rest of
the steps work as shown if you do that.  Probably that step should be 
added or edited.



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