Re: Flash viewer for PPC Etch

[Roy Butler <roy.butler@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Børge Holen wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 23:56:13 Roy Butler wrote:
> > Børge Holen wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 23:38:44 Andrzej Mendel wrote:
> > > > Børge Holen pisze:
> > > > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 21:52:00 Bin Zhang wrote:
> > > > > > On Dec 4, 2007 8:05 PM, Roy Butler <roy.butler@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > > > > > > I'm running Debian Etch on a PPC.  Using Iceweasel/Firefox with the
> > > > > > > libflash-mozplugin.so 0.4.12, I can get Flash working on sites like
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >         http://www.nvidia.com/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > but not on
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >         http://www.youtube.com/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is there a different plugin which would work
> > > > > > Yes. Gnash:
> > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> > > > > you actually got Gnash working on showing videos from youtube?...
> > > > > mine's just pretending the video is loading.
> > > > Newer Gnash version work reliably with YouTube (although they consume a
> > > > lot of CPU power). I'm using latest CVS, but 0.8.1 should do as well
> > > selfcompile?
> > > the deb packages does'n work then?
> > Right, I compiled 0.8.1 following the instructions at
> >
> > 	http://wiki.gnashdev.org/wiki/index.php/Building_on_Debian
> >
> > I've worked with Linux for quite some time, but am new to Debian.  When
> > I didn't find anything with
> >
> > 	apt-cache search --names-only gnash
> >
> > I figured a compiling myself was the way to go.  I did find deb packages
> > for all of its dependencies, except for swfmill, which I also compiled.
> >   So far, I throw stuff like this in my /opt directory.
>
> I know, so did I. 
> never cared much for opt, I'm just going with /usr/local/bin
>
> but the gnash wont compile and breaks off with a nonsense error on 
> deb/testing. Can't remember now what happened, I'll try again in a while to 
> see if things changes after some cvs updates.

After apt-get'ing all of the dependencies and building swfmill, I added 
the ming and swfmill binaries to my path, in order for the configure to 
complete successfully through the testing phase:

	export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/libming/bin:/opt/swfmill-0.2.12/bin

Also, I think the libming-util deb package being needed may not have 
been explicitly called out.  But, after all of this, things worked great 
with the 0.8.1 gnash available here:

	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.1/


Roy