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Re: No video in iceweasel or konqueror (lenny standard install)



On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:50, A. F. Cano <afc@shibaya.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:57:24AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
>> Originally I wrote:
>> > Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site?
>> >
>> > I presume this is a flash issue.  This is a new Lenny install, not un
>> > ...
>> Do you have the packaged version of Flash installed? What does this show?:
>>
>> dpkg -l |grep -i flash |awk '{print $2}'
>
> flashplayer-mozilla
> kwordquiz
> libswfdec-0.6-90
> swfdec-mozilla
>
> I believe I installed the last one in an effort to solve the problem, it
> wasn't installed automatically by the Lenny installation.  The lib is
> probably a dependency.
>
>> I would try removing any packaged version of flash (flashplugin-nonfree), and
>
> There is no flashplugin-nonfree.  The only thing similar that aptitude
> reports is flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound, that I have not installed so I
> don't add yet another variable to the problem.  Keep in mind that iceweasel
> reports flash 9 r100, so I does not appear that something is missing. My
> sources.list has this:

It looks like flashplugin-nonfree (which is from the main debian archive,
flashplayer-mozilla is from debian-multimedia) is only in sid.

I would remove both swfdec packages, and then purge and reinstall
flashplayer-mozilla, and check that the correct symlinks are created
in e.g. [iceape dir]/plugins


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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