Bug#686633: apt: /etc/apt/preferences is not interpreted correctly
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Grześ Andruszkiewicz
<gandrusz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I basically use this repository for (a) flash player (b) acrobat
> reader (c) cinelerra - which seem to be either our of date or not
> packaged at all in the official repos. However, there is a lot of
> other, often buggy stuff in there - hence my attempts to pin only
> interesting packages.
a) There is 'gnash' available in Debian main - it's a free implementation
of some (mostly earlier) flash versions. Works for all these "funky"
flash advertisement banners as well as the media players for audio/
video streaming just fine. I think it is even part of the default desktop
install.
If you really need the non-free Adobe flash there is a flashplugin-nonfree
package in contrib which will handle the installation and provides a
command with which you can update flash (in case Adobe fixes their bugs…).
b) There are a multitude of PDF viewers (and even some editors) in main.
Every desktop environment has its own, e.g. 'evince', 'okular', 'xpdf', …
Choose what you like. I would at least highly recommend to NOT use Adobes
Acrobat Reader as its track record for fixing security bugs in its linux
build is even worse than the record for flash …
c) Never used cinelerra. There were some requests for it to be packaged
for debian (#78209 and merges), but nobody did it so far, maybe everyone
uses alternatives which are packaged? I am not to deep into that topic,
but I recently used kdenlive for some video editing - maybe its an option.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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