Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for plugins handled by nspluginwrapper). The best solution is just to rm the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html for more details). Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like: Shockwave Flash File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152 etc. should appear. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel that IIRC is older not being updated. I remember that someone had problems with that previously. ed On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Fracaso es la oportunidad de reiniciar con mas inteligencia Henry Ford ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for plugins handled by nspluginwrapper). The best solution is just to rm the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html for more details). Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like: Shockwave Flash File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152 etc. should appear. -- Marc well, thanks to all. as of yesterday around 16:20 doing the nspluginwrapper thing installed both a shared helix lib and a flashplayer library in ~/.mozilla/plugins . so now, youtube can waste my time (ha-ha-hmph). next i'll see if i can do other A/V streams. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:15:35AM -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary Gary, I would recommend www/firefox3 rather than www/firefox-devel that IIRC is older not being updated. I remember that someone had problems with that previously. ed thanks ed. now i have just two firefox installations. [[[ ... maybe we have too many options..? ]]] -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. That's because /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and /usr/local/browser_plugins aren't in your home directory. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'. pgpDg8FRVHHHX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: flashplugin9?
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. gary, my son just got it all to work according to the directions in the handbook (section 6.2.3): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html using firefox3 and www/linux-flashplugin9 on fbsd7.1 (note they say you need www/linux-flashplugin7 if you are using an older version of fbsd ... which would explain why i haven't been able to get it to work since i installed 9 on 7.0 ... not that i want to use flash in the first place since there is a great benefit to telling all the irritating people i can't use flash which is that you don't have to watch all the amazing videos they just discovered on the web that they want to share with you as though they think you don't have better things to do with your life than to watch the nonsense they think is wonderful ... therefore, noflash = less bothersome existence). -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. for youtube - use youtube-dl from ports. simply cutpaste URL and download file to disk, then play. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 02:07:08PM -0800, prad wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. gary, my son just got it all to work according to the directions in the handbook (section 6.2.3): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html using firefox3 and www/linux-flashplugin9 on fbsd7.1 (note they say you need www/linux-flashplugin7 if you are using an older version of fbsd ... which would explain why i haven't been able to get it to work since i installed 9 on 7.0 hmm. well, after my kernerl wipeout i rebuilt EVERYTHING and now have 7.1. (up from 7.0-pre) ... ... not that i want to use flash in the first place since there is a great benefit to telling all the irritating people i can't use flash which is that you don't have to watch all the amazing videos they just discovered on the web that they want to share with you as though they think you don't have better things to do with your life than to watch the nonsense they think is wonderful ... therefore, noflash = less bothersome existence). oh, i hear you. many of the site i login to use flash [or ask you to d/load+install it ] for commercials. something i despise, but that's another matter. youtube is just an example. i want video mostly to stream the pbs videos that i miss because i'm often helping my daughter with her homework:-) ... and there are other streams too. i just installed miro here. it fails. don't know why. seems like if not flash, no video. (*sigh*) be nice if things-java were the easiest/best way, but evidently now. gary gary -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:28:10 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i want video mostly to stream the pbs videos that i miss because i'm often helping my daughter with her homework:-) there is admittedly some really good stuff out there. for instance, my son and i occasionally watch classical pianists and violinist that are available on youtube. he uses flash, but what i do is use downloadhelper with firefox and then convert the file with ffmpeg to .avi and then watch. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step by step: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs thanks for your fbsd how-to! looks great, and i will try it if nothing else works. i have ff3 (i think that is a Linux-firefox3 port [??] and the freebsd2, and am now downloading the firefox-devel port. in my opinion, too many way to go and too little data on how to get everything working. gary On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:23 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining Langhans *** http://www.langhans.com.pl *** herbert.raim...@gmx.net *** NIP 526-229-61-51 *** Regon 014911759 *** Tel. 603 341 441 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
