Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie
On 2015-09-08, Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> Op 08-09-15 om 20:37 schreef Jimmy Johnson:
>> On 09/08/2015 10:40 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> On 09/08/2015 12:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But: why will it install in wheezy, but not in Jessie - and yet it
>>>>> is listed
>>>>> in neither. :-/
>>>>
>>>> Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources.
>>>
>>> I suspect something else is going on. I also am running Wheezy and have
>>> this line in sources.list:
>>>
>>> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
>>>
>>> I do an aptitude update and upgrade, and when I do:
>>>
>>> # aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla
>>>
>>> I get:
>>>
>>> No candidate version found for flashplayer-mozilla
>>
>> I use synaptic and it's there for wheezy, jessie, stretch and sid..
>>
>> i386
>> http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/oldstable/non-free/binary-i386/package/flashplayer-mozilla.php
>>
>>
>> amd64
>> http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/wheezy/non-free/binary-amd64/package/flashplayer-mozilla
>>
>
> Not sure what this is for a package, but in Debian you have
> "flashplugin-nonfree" in contrib what downloads and installs the
> flashplugin for Mozilla.
>
> For Chromium there is "pepperflashplugin-nonfree".
>
> deb-multimedia in your sources.list can give conflicts, better do not
> use it.
>
> You can update the flashplugins with these commands:
> update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
> update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
>
> Better make a daily cronjob to do this, because there are much problems
> with flash. I have removed it from my machine.
If you use flashplayer-mozilla from deb-multimedia, then you get updates
automatically. Conflicts are avoided by pinning the deb-multimedia
repository.
--
Liam
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