From 909cbcdbb71504de80029e0ac81310b69ab81c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ftigeot Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:33:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Move flash installation instructions to "Other Software" --- docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/index.mdwn | 73 --------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/index.mdwn b/docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/index.mdwn index 13f52f0..f4b4645 100644 --- a/docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/index.mdwn @@ -334,76 +334,3 @@ All the *pkgin* commands can be seen [here](http://imil.net/pkgin/). *pkgin* com To install a desktop you can [read the following](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/X/) Other Docs can be found [here](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/X/). - -## 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. -- 1.7.7.2