Installing Adobe Flash on FreeBSD 10.1

Anti_Evil · Dec 8, 2014

Dears,

I was just following the instructions for installing Adobe Flash on my machine. It seems that I have to install the nspluginwrapper package, but as I see this package depends on linux_base-f10, but right now I have linux_base-c6-6.6, so is there any workaround to install required packages for Flash?

Thanks.

uzsolt · Dec 8, 2014

Maybe you can install it from ports - or you can wait for the newest package.

fonz · Dec 8, 2014

The port www/nspluginwrapper requires Linux, no matter which one. Binary packages really shouldn't be built against -f10 any more, but if they still are you can either build them yourself from ports or wait until the packages get updated.

wblock@ · Dec 8, 2014

Binary packages are built with the defaults. Right now, that is the Fedora 10 Linux base ports. Soon, it will change to the much newer CentOS 6 Linux base ports. Install the Flash player from ports to get it now.

Anti_Evil · Dec 8, 2014

Got it, thank you all

fonz · Dec 9, 2014

wblock@ said:
Binary packages are built with the defaults. Right now, that is the Fedora 10 Linux base ports.

But weren't there major security issues with several of those Fedora ports?

Oko · Dec 9, 2014

fonz said:
But weren't there major security issues with several of those Fedora ports?

What kind security of are we talking about here? Man wants to run Flash

fonz · Dec 9, 2014

wblock@ said:
Binary packages are built with the defaults. Right now, that is the Fedora 10 Linux base ports. Soon, it will change to the much newer Centos 6 Linux base ports.

It has just been announced that CentOS 6 is now the default. So the next time the packages are rebuilt, they should be built against -c6.

robert1307 · Dec 13, 2014

You'll also have to do sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 if nspluginwrapper will throw a FATAL: kernel too old message (like it did with me).