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 ## Servers
 [[SSHserver]]
 
-## Office suite
+[FTP Server](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/FTP/)
 
-[Office suite](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/office_suite/)
+## Installing flash player on firefox.
 
-## FTP
+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
 
-[FTP](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/FTP/)
+### 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.