installing flash on FreeBSD

How to run Flash on FreeBSD
The Flash Player from Macromedia is only distributed in binary form and only for Linux,
To run it on FreeBSD we need to install nspluginwrapper

cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper
make install clean

Then install the Flash Player linux-flashplugin7 as

cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7
make install clean


Now we need to make linking of firefox and flash player

to do this open a console.
Login in as a user whose BROWSER need to play the flash movie while surfing
Now run following command

nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

This command lets nspluginwrapper search for installed plugins and generate wrapper libraries in ~/.mozilla/plugins. These wrapper libraries will also be visible to and usable by native FreeBSD builds of Firefox, Mozilla and Seamonkey.

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