Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie
On Sunday 13 September 2015 05:46:15 Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> I tried pepper-flash for chromium but it didn't work..neither did
> deb-multimedia.
> The only thing which worked was Google Chrome and it really works.
Not for everything. None of them works for everything. You just have to mix
and match.
Lisi
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On 2015-09-12, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sat 12 Sep 2015 at 20:21:40 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > >> On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> > >> > Op 09-09-15 om 23:43 schreef Liam O'Toole:
> > >> >> I've been using Flash from deb-multimedia for years without issue
> > >> >> (on stable releases, I grant you). I use the following pinning:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Package: *
> > >> >> Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
> > >> >> Pin-Priority: 100
> > >> >
> > >> > I don't know what this is doing, do you?
> > >>
> > >> Yes. When a package is available in both debian and deb-multimedia,
> > >> the former is always preferred.
> > >
> > > Except when you use "Flash from deb-multimedia for years".
> >
> > I don't follow. Could you please explain?
> >
> > >> > I think you will have many packages on your system what are coming
> >
> > from
> >
> > >> > deb-multimedia. Maybe that's what you want, no idea.
> > >>
> > >> Not so. See above.
> > >>
> > >> > I think the people from deb-multimedia are doing their best to make
> >
> > good
> >
> > >> > packages. But I think Debian is too complex to mix with a repo like
> > >> > deb-multimedia with many packages. Maybe you don't have problems
> > >> > with flash, but I think your system is not "rock solid" anymore. And
> > >> > what does deb-multimedia bring you for that?
> > >>
> > >> The system is no longer 'rock solid' as soon as you install any
> > >> third-party software, be it via flashplayer-mozilla or
> > >> flashplugin-nonfree or anything else.
> > >
> > > Both packages use the same source from Adobe. Why specifically should
> > > one be less solid than the other when it comes to watching flash video?
> >
> > The point I was trying to make above neither is no more or less 'rock
> > solid' than the other.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Liam
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