Re: Pepperflashplugin in backport does not work
op 14-09-14 12:25, Bart Martens schreef:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:52:44AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> op 14-09-14 08:17, Alexander Wirt schreef:
>>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Bart,
>>>>
>>>> Pepperflashplugin-nonfree what's in wheezy-backports (1.4~bpo60) does
>>>> not work with the version of Chromium what's in stable (35.0.1916.153).
>>>>
>>>> It installs fine, and I see the plugin in "chrome:plugins", but when I
>>>> go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ I get the message
>>>> "Adobe flash player is required to display some elements on this page".
>>>>
>>>> No problems in Jessie.
>>> I did the latest uploads of pepperflashplugin, unfortunately
>>> pepperflashplugin now links against GLIBC_2.14 which is not available in
>>> wheezy (see [1]). I am not sure if this happened by intention, but there is
>>> nothing we can do here. If upstream doesn't fix this, we will have to remove
>>> the pepperflashplugin package from bpo.
>>
>> Would it be possible to go back to an older version?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "older version".
>
> The Debian package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is designed to always extract the
> player from the newest Chrome package (within stable, beta or unstable). The
> Debian package pepperflashplugin-nonfree as-is does not support reverting to an
> older player. Going back to an older pepperflashplugin-nonfree won't help.
Ah, you're right.
> However, you may have older Chrome packages still in
> /var/cache/pepperflashplugin-nonfree so then you can manually extract the
> player from an old Chrome package and install that player manually.
Right, this works.
I've uploaded the amd64 version to here:
https://vandervlis.nl/files/google-chrome-stable_36.0.1985.143-1_amd64.deb
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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