Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 19:39:25 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:

> thveillon.debian wrote:
>> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> Mark Allums wrote:
>>>> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>>>> Mark Allums wrote:
>>>>>> flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again.  I don't think it has
>>>>>> any other Sid dependencies.  Remember, if your internet connection
>>>>>> is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs
>>>>>> to download the player from Adobe.
>>>>> I've already installed Flash directly from the Adobe site, so the
>>>>> installer won't do anything for me.  I thought that, with true
>>>>> Mozilla and Flash direct from Adobe, that Flash should work.  I
>>>>> shouldn't need anything else.  Unfortunately, it does not.  Does
>>>>> anyone else have Flash working with Mozilla Firefox (not Iceweasel)?
>>>>>
>>>> Try uninstalling everything flash-related, even swfdec, and so forth,
>>>> then installing Sid's flashplugin-nonfree.
>>>>
>>>> However, you may need to copy the plugin .so manually into the
>>>> Firefox plugin directory.  If Iceweasel is installed, you can find it
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Installing the Adobe way has never worked for me.  I have always
>>>> needed the Debian way.
>>> All the installer does is download and unpack the file from adobe and
>>> copy it to the appropriate directories.  I already have the new
>>> libflashplayer.so and I have it in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/
>>> Firefox recognizes that it is installed and starts to load the flash
>>> video.  Then it hangs.  Using the installer from Sid will simply
>>> download another copy of the file and place it in a directory that is
>>> incorrect for me, so that I can copy it to where it already is.  I
>>> have already downloaded the .deb for Ubuntu from the Adobe site,
>>> thinking that maybe there was a problem with the .tar.gz file, but I
>>> get the same results.  I don't see where having the Sid installer
>>> download the same ..tar.gz file that I already have is going to make a
>>> difference.
>>>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> maybe have a look at /etc/alternatives to see if you have a link that
>> can confuse things, and look at flashplayer-mozilla dependencies to see
>> if you're missing something.
> 
> I don't see anything there.
> 
> Here is what I have tried since my last post:
> 
> I have downloaded the adobe flashplayer archives for all of V10 and V9.
> I installed, one at a time, V10_22_87, V10_15_3, V10_12_36 - none worked
> I installed V9_115, which was what I originally had - it didn't work I
> copied back my saved directory with firefox 3.05 - same results
> 
> By this point, I was back to running the same version of firefox and
> flashplayer that had been working together prior to trying to upgrade
> flashplayer.  I would have expected this to at least get me back to
> where I was.  No such luck.
> 
> So I decided to try to go with straight up Debian and I installed
> Iceweasel and flashplayer-mozilla.  This also yielded the same results.
>   The YouTube video starts to load, displaying the initial frame, and
> then it hangs, taking Iceweasel with it.  All I can do at this point is
> destroy the window and then kill any leftover processes.
> 
> I don't know what to do at this point.  I am about to do the Winblows
> thing and reinstall in a spare set of partitions.  At least I have the
> space.  Does anyone have any other suggestions before I have to go to
> this extreme?

It's been almost a month since the last post i this thread.
Did you give up or get it to work?  If it works, what did you do to make 
it work?  I too am getting tired of no flash.

-- hendrik