nspluginwrapper puzzle

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

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

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.

Aside: Using the path given above there is a choice which leads to
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm.  I found these first and tried
them with the same results.

Tom