Re: Flash Player 11 under Debian Lenny
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:16:55 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:57:06 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:04:37 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
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>> I can't tell why it works for you in fedora but when the flashplayer
>> plugin is properly detected by the browser and it can't load a file it
>> usually means the problems is "elsewhere". Anyway, Lenny was using
>> Iceweasel 3.0.x (not 3.5.x) unless you got the updated version from the
>> backports version and 3.0.x it can be very old.
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> I don't know either, but with Fedora I've always installed the plugin
> manually.
I also do it that way: go to the Adobe site, manually fetch the tar.gz
and extract the .so file under my user's mozilla profile.
> That is, downloaded the archive directly from Adobe and copied
> it as root to the appropriate directory (usually
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/), so it's globally available, renaming the
> previous version so it won't be overwritten.
I prefer to restrict the scope of the flashplayer plugin for just my
user, that way I can launch different browsers with different plugins.
> This just in case the new one doesn't work, since I've been using until
> recently alphas or betas of the 64-bit version. Just followed Adobe's
> generic Linux install instructions. Never enabled Adobe's Fedora
> repository for this as it's all 32-bit, and won't work with a 64-bit
> browser unless you use a wrapper. Too much trouble.
How is that Fedora does not have an external repository for the 64 bits
version of the plugin? That sounds unbelievable :-?
> I think most Debian users use apt-get to install the plugin. Maybe,
> there's the rub.
Many users do, indeed... but I always recommend using the Adobe file
directly. I find it an easier and more convenient method though you have
to manually search for updates.
>> I've never had problems with that. In fact, I'm using right now adobe
>> flashplayer in Firefox (the plugin is located in my user's home) and
>> gnash in Epiphany (plugin is installed system wide), they do not
>> collide.
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> Adobe says to delete or rename the old version before installing the
> new. I forgot one time and had an old version in my /home directory and
> the new version in /usr. The browser (Firefox) recognized and reported
> both, but neither would work until I deleted or renamed one or the
> other. This was with Fedora Core 6, I think, years ago.
Different versions shouldn't collide because the first listed is the one
used by the browser. But know knows, I've seen weird things with the
plugins, and not just flashplayer but also java :-)
> I've never had any success getting gnash to work.
Stock versions of the plugin usually works with sites that used older
versions of the player (<10). My guess is that updating gnash to the
latest version will just work with most of the sites but users find it is
easier to get the Adobe flashplayer plugin than having to update gnash...
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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