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Guidance to run flashpluginctl results in misleading guidance to install outdated www/linux-c6-flashplugin10 #28

Closed grahamperrin closed 7 years ago

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

Version 10 is seriously outdated.

The norm is (or should be) the port of Adobe's released version 24.0.0.186.

In context:

… If Adobe Flash does not seem to be working, running flashpluginctl on as the regular user account should fix the problem.

– https://github.com/trueos/trueos-docs/blob/287d9681b3be9ee1d1ef9b9f94c8407938434d70/trueos-handbook/using.rst#java-and-flash 

$ date ; uname -v ; uname -n
Sun  1 Jan 2017 11:26:25 GMT
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #12 5ef9376(drm-next-4.7): Thu Dec 29 16:26:36 UTC 2016     root@gauntlet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook850g2-trueos.university.brighton.ac.uk
$ flashpluginctl on
file /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-c6_64-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so not found. Please install port 'www/linux-c6-flashplugin10'
$

There was report of problems: "flashpluginctl on" looking for wrong directory?

I am having problems getting Flash to work properly. …

Running "flashpluginctl on" gives the following [ken@kenstrueos-2554] ~% flashpluginctl on file /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-c6_64-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so not found. Please install port 'www/linux-c6-flashplugin10'

Enhancement to the guide

With emerging changes (maybe flashplayer-24.0 and/or linux-flashplayer-24.0.0.186) I can't guess whether use of flashpluginctl will be advisable in the future.

If advisable, then I guess that:

  1. the guide should forewarn users to ignore guidance about linux-c6-flashplugin10; to not install that port; and/or
  2. there should be a change to the guidance that is offered by `flashpluginctl.

flashpluginctl

$ pkg search flashpluginctl
$ man flashpluginctl
No manual entry for flashpluginctl
$ flashpluginctl --help
file /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-c6_64-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so not found. Please install port 'www/linux-c6-flashplugin10'
$

– and I can not find flashpluginctl in FreshPorts, or in FreeBSD manual pages. Is/was it a PC-BSD/TrueOS product?

Mrt134 commented 7 years ago

Thanks for posting this. I've had a full rework of "using.rst" on my "to-do" list for a while, and finally have some time to look into the file. Getting flash up to speed seems a good place to start :).

Mrt134 commented 7 years ago

Update: flash support is in a state of flux right now as the devs continue to work on Linux emulation and other issues. I've been advised to refrain from a full update of this section until some of these issues are resolved. In the meantime, I'll be putting a notification box in the handbook explaining this and providing some informative links.

Mrt134 commented 7 years ago

Apologies, I forgot to close this with commit 263581bbf46c5206fef214e89fa20d9eb23ea23f

Flash install instructions are updated and tested.