lux-integ wrote: > On Monday 30 December 2013 11:41:26 Richard wrote: >> Is there some 'trick' or undocumented procedure for building/using >> webkitgtk-1 with flash? Some build flag that I may have missed or variable >> which needs to be set? >> >> I have downloaded the appropriate archive from Adobe - with a readme which >> tells me to put libflashplayer.so in the 'appropriate directory' (not very >> helpful). A quick search around stackoverflow tended to hint at >> directories such as: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ >> /opt/google/chrome/plugins >> so I have copied the library to both locations with no success. I have >> searched as best online and I can find nothing helpful. >> >> So - how do you guys get flash working? >> >> Many thanks, R. > > > I have only took a cursory look at this thread so please excuse if I have > missed anything. > > I read somewhere that adobe will discontinue support for linux (i.e. > libflashplayer.so for linux ) early in 2014. If that is so ( and I would be > grateful of someonw on list could confirm/explain ) is it worth bothering > with? > > Also if the story of imminent bit-rot for adobe's libflash-player for linux, > is true could anyone on list enlighten whether gnash/related is/are > progressing as replacement or howto/otherwise html5 replacement for a > blfs setup?
I have gnash installed and it plays some flash but not others. Generally, I prefer to *not* have flash because it is used so often for junk I don't want to see. I have an Android system that came with flash and explicitly removed it. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
