I installed freebsd on a laptop last night (Dell Latitude D600 if you care) and went about configuring some desktop software.
The only thing I was shocked to learn was that flash still doesn’t work reliably. After reading Randi’s post (freebsdgirl.com) and several others, I still wasn’t getting anywhere.
This is the best I have to offer right now:
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-firefox/ && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin9/ && make install clean
At first, this appears to work, but then I ran into a couple of bugs.
- No Sound
- Crashed browser after about a minue
So if anybody can help with this, leave a comment or drop me a line. Thanks.
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Edit: This just came to my attention from
- Use cvsup or portsnap to update your ports tree
- Install www/linuxpluginwrapper
- copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt from distfiles/flashplugin/7.0r68/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz to /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
- Fire up Firefox and test
Can’t give you results until I give it a shot tonight.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Nice to see freebsd runs on Dell’s !
April 16th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
install /usr/ports/graphics/gnash
for me it works like charm, I use it to watch videos on youtube and other sites, mostly porn
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I don’t know what is wrong, but linuxpluginwrapper won’t install:
[ivanatora] /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper# make install clean
===> linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_8 doesn’t support ELF symbol versioning, yet..
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper.