Re: Adobe Flash
On Wednesday 18 November 2015 23:55:02 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote:
> > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > >>> for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't
> > >>> subscribe the debian-user list.)
> > >>>
> > >>> To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install
> > >>> youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl
> > >>
> > >> Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel,
> > >
> > > That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed
> > > every new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a
> > > bunch of them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04 on it
> > > but there is nothing for it to download. So quit advertising that
> > > it works and just let flash die the horrible security hole ridden
> > > death it deserves.
> > >
> > >> or watch with
> > >> Google Chrome.
> > >
> > > Can you stop it from calling home? Tcpdump and wireshark are quite
> > > educational tools.
> > >
> > >> I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those
> > >> do. I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most
> > >> days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if
> > >> there has been a new newsflash on an important story. Think of the
> > >> disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time!
> > >
> > > So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click
> > > thru 2 or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which
> > > it promises to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet.
> >
> > ........
> >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for
> > me on iceweasel.
> >
> > Tom Ashley
>
> And what repo has that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Quoting myself from slightly earlier in this thread, and possibly still stuck
in the ether:
Available in Stretch or in Jessie-backports. Not much use for those of us
running Wheezy, as Gene and I are. And it is in contrib not main. Still,
things are obviously improving.
Lisi
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