Re: nspluginwrapper puzzle
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:34:38AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> iceape can play youtube videos but stalls at the start of NYTimes
> videos.
>
> My setup is lenney with a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. From
> iceape/help/about plugins/plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux (x86 64) I have
> downloaded:
>
> nspluginwrapper-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> nspluginwrapper-i386-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> nspluginwrapper-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Why ??? we have
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=nspluginwrapper
in contrib Debian archive. Unstable/sid has 1.0.0-1
> and tried unwrapping the tarball and running .configure. This failed
> with the message, "GLIB 2.0 environment not usable."
>
> Next I used alien to generate .deb's from the rpm's and installed them.
> It is with Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124 installed using resulting version of nspluginwrapper that iceape can play youtube videos but not NYTimes video's.
>
> Postings on other subjects which I have read suggest that building
> applications from source is better than using alien to convert rpm
> files. If this is so how do I resolve the GLIB problem? I have run
> apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade without resolving this issue.
Install packages required. See debian source package for details.
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