On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote: > adobe has stopped supporting flash on Linux. Even if you can find a > working older plugin, it won't have the ability to handle DRM stuff like > Netflix. > I don't have Netflix, but the old plugin version is still works for Hulu, Amazon Prime and YouTube. The current "best" solution is to install pipelight -- which sets up a > modified wine instance that allows Linux browsers to use native windows > versions of plugins. It is far from perfect, but it will get you a fully > functional flash environment -- albeit a slightly buggy one. > Bleh. Reminds me of the bad old days of using NDISWrapper for Wifi. I can't remember the last time I even saw someone asking about NDISWrapper -- I'm glad that's behind us finally. Hopefully some day this pipelight hack will be equally unnecessary. -- Michael Moore > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am having some 'issues' trying to install Adobe flash-player on Debian >>> 'Wheezy' >>> running: >>> >>> Kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 >>> >>> Gnome 3 >>> >>> Iceweasel 24.3.0 >>> >>> I have successfully installed openjdk- and icedtea- >>> >>> I have read quite a few forums etc. >>> >>> >>> >>> Below are the content's of my /etc/apt/sources.list >>> >>> # >>> >>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 >>> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main >>> >>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 >>> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main >>> >>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: >>> # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main >>> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: >>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main >>> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main >>> # deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main >>> # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main >>> # deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free >>> deb http://lug.mtu.edu/debian wheezy-backports main >>> >>> I have run the command: sudo apt-get update >>> >>> then have run the command: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree >>> >>> then receive output: >>> >>> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install >>> flashplugin-nonfree >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree >>> Reading state information... Done >>> Suggested packages: >>> konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal >>> The following NEW packages will be installed: >>> flashplugin-nonfree >>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. >>> Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives. >>> After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used. >>> Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree. >>> (Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.) >>> Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from >>> .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ... >>> Processing triggers for man-db ... >>> Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... >>> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... >>> Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... >>> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ... >>> ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc >>> More information might be available at: >>> http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer >>> >>> >>> >>> Here are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins >>> >>> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls -lah >>> total 36K >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:53 . >>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:30 .. >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K Jul 25 2013 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 26 02:09 libjavaplugin.so -> >>> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K Jul 27 2012 >>> librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so >>> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ >>> >>> Thank you for any help. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> Does it work in the Chromium browser? >> >> I haven't been able to get Flash working in Firefox on Debian (64 bit) >> for some time. It does work in Chromium though. I haven't spent much time >> on it though since I don't use Flash all that much. >> >> -- >> Michael Moore >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140227/49cedf2f/attachment-0001.html>