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***This Page is under constructions. New software are being added regularly.***
**Follow the links below to see how to make corresponding software work on DragonFly**

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## Servers
[[SSHserver]]

[FTP Server](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/FTP/)

## Installing flash player on firefox.

The Flash plugin is distributed by Adobe in **binary form only**. Adobe does not provide a native DragonFlyBSD plugin, but there is a Linux plugin which you can use under Linux emulation. Linux emulation software is installed from **pkgsrc** and is tested to be working fine on x86 Platform. The steps are

### Configure Linux Support

    # echo "linux_load=yes" >> /boot/loader.conf
    # echo "linux_enable=yes" >> /etc/rc.conf
    # echo "proc  /compat/linux/proc  linprocfs  rw  0  0" >> /etc/fstab

**Reboot DragonFly** ( not necessarry but easier for new users )  so that Linux Emulation is loaded to the kernel and configured correctly.

### Install multimedia/libflashsupport from pkgsrc. 

    # cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/libflashsupport
    # bmake package

This will get you all packages needed for Linux Emulation. Currently the Linux Emulation package installs software from [Suse 10]( http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/discontinued/10.0/suse/i586/) distribution. You could see the list of packages installed using pkg_info.

    # pkg_info |grep suse
    suse_openssl-10.0nb5 Linux compatibility package for OpenSSL
    suse_gtk2-10.0nb4   Linux compatibility package for GTK+-2.x
    suse_gtk-10.0nb2    Linux compatibility package for GTK+-1.x
    suse_libjpeg-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package for JPEG
    suse_base-10.0nb5   Linux compatibility package
    suse_slang-10.0nb3  Linux compatibility package for S-Lang
    suse_locale-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package with locale files
    suse_fontconfig-10.0nb6 Linux compatibility package for fontconfig
    suse_libtiff-10.0nb4 Linux compatibility package for TIFF
    suse_openmotif-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package for OpenMotif
    suse_libpng-10.0nb4 Linux compatibility package for PNG
    suse_libcups-10.0nb4 Linux compatibility package for CUPS
    suse_gdk-pixbuf-10.0nb3 Linux compatibility package for gdk-pixbuf
    suse_expat-10.0nb2  Linux compatibility package for expat
    suse_vmware-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package to help run VMware
    suse_libxml2-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package for libxml2
    suse_compat-10.0nb3 Linux compatibility package with old shared libraries
    suse_x11-10.0nb4    Linux compatibility package for X11
    suse_glx-10.0nb4    Linux compatibility package for OpenGL/Mesa
    suse_freetype2-10.0nb5 Linux compatibility package for freetype-2.x
    suse_aspell-10.0nb2 Linux compatibility package for aspell
    suse-10.0nb4        SUSE-based Linux binary emulation environment

### Install www/nspluginwrapper 

This will allow DragonFly to use the Linux Binary Flash Plugin

    # cd /usr/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper
    # bmake package

### Install multimedia/ns-flash

This is the Linux Flash Plugin itself.

    # cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/ns-flash
    # bmake NO_CHECKSUM=yes package

You can check if the Flash plugin is installed right by.

    # /usr/pkg/bin/nspluginwrapper --list
    /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
      Original plugin: /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
      Wrapper version string: 1.2.2
    /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
      Original plugin: /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
      Wrapper version string: 1.2.2

Don't worry if it is listed twice as above.

Now Start Firefox and type "**about:plugins**" in the address bar and you should find the flash plugins listed as [shown in this Picture](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sgeorge/PICs/flash-plugin-in-firefox.png).

You can watch Streaming Flash now.