firefox + flash

[Vim Visual]

yes, I was aware of gnash... it sounds indeed very promising

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/index.php?p=177

in principle they should have something working with youtube and
similar format videos by next summer, even if their main goal is much
more ambitious...

thanks for the port hint... I'm installing it right now

oooops... something went wrong...

Error: bad shared lib version /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.3.4 (curl.>=4)
Fatal error
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/gnash (line 1523 of
/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/gnash (line 1787 of
/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/gnash (line 1326 of
/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).


mmmh... now what?

I start to understand why the yencourage you to only use the package
binaries and not the ports tree...


2006/12/8, Peter Hessler <phessler at theapt.org>:
> There is a free flash implementation being worked on:
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
>
> OpenBSD has a port of it in -current (after 4.0).  It /kinda/ works,
> and is in active development.  Hopefully it'll be good enough for
> StrongBad Email and Google Video by the time 4.1 is released.
>
>
> On 2006 Dec 08 (Fri) at 15:45:02 +0100 (+0100), Vim Visual wrote:
> :Hi,
> :
> :before you kill me let me enumerate some items:
> :
> :1- I understand that flash is evil (only GNU/Linux _binaries_)
> :2- Still sometimes (~0.01%) it's important that I can run a flash flie
> :3- I have read the faq's regarding flash and i386
> :4- I understand that I need a GNU/Linux browser to "host" the binary
> :
> :As a matter of fact, I have followed this non-official faqs
> :
> : http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#flashplugin
> :
> :and installed opera. Flash works fine.
> :
> :Problem: I don't like at *all* opera. Starting staright right  from
> :their unclear copyright statement.
> :I would like to be able to run firefox with flash enabled sometimes.
> :This implies that I'd need a GNU/Linux firefox version (say Firefox,
> :capital F stands for flash, to distinguish it from the native o'bsd
> :firefox)
> :
> :That's the question: How/ Where do I get it? And how do I enable flash on it?
> :
> :Thanks...
> :
> :Pau
> :
> :PS: There are three things in live I don't like: flash, firmware and
> :java. Fortunately java people seem to become a bit more logical now.
> :Hopefully gnash will work sometime soon and regarding firmware... I
> :just can say I have sent some emails to the responsible person in
> :Intel
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