Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to start
> > at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's
> > (Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that
> > Macromedia Flash 9 must be installed. I can't do this because the
> > system is booted with a 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel.
>
> Could you not copy the Flash plugin .so file (which can be downloaded
> from Adobe's website) to the browser's plugin directory mounted in the
> chroot? Or am I misunderstanding it?
>
> > The instructions I followed in creating the chroot system implied it is
> > possible to play the video's. If so, what have I failed to install?
>
> While I may not have the answer to your question, I wonder why you do
> need the chroot if the sole purpose is to play Flash videos etc.;
> because I am able to use Flash on an amd64 using nspluginwrapper
> without having to start the browser from a chroot. Do you have any
> other purpose served by possessing the chroot? I'd like to know if
> there is something for which a 32-bit chroot would be an absolute
> necessity.
>
> Thanks.
There may be no good reason for the 32-bit chroot. I was influenced by
the following quote, "If you're going to point out nspluginwrapper,
please also tell me how to make sound with Pulse/Audio work in that
setup." from the http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/chroot. At the
time I read this I had failed to make nspluginwrapper work and had read
postings on the users list which suggested the 32-bit chroot was a good
solution. Not understanding chroot I searched for guidance in setting
upt the 32-chroot. Even though I don't use Pulse/Audio this reference
suggested I was on the right track. Actually
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference sections 8.6.35.1-3 were the most
help in setting up the 32-chroot and the result is pretty neat even if
unnecessary.
Finally, the truth is I still have not gotten nspluginwrapper to work.
When I first tried some months ago (I work on this intermittantly) I had
found some complicated instructions which led me to a point where init
would have been destroyed. Yesterday I tried again with the
straightforward instructions from iceape/help/plugins and the
installation still fails with a message "error while loading shared
libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such
file or directory."
I'm working on fixing this.
Tom
> --
> Kumar Appaiah
>
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