On Sun, 17 May 2009 19:39:25 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: >>>> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>>>> Mark Allums wrote: >>>>>> flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has >>>>>> any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection >>>>>> is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs >>>>>> to download the player from Adobe. >>>>> I've already installed Flash directly from the Adobe site, so the >>>>> installer won't do anything for me. I thought that, with true >>>>> Mozilla and Flash direct from Adobe, that Flash should work. I >>>>> shouldn't need anything else. Unfortunately, it does not. Does >>>>> anyone else have Flash working with Mozilla Firefox (not Iceweasel)? >>>>> >>>> Try uninstalling everything flash-related, even swfdec, and so forth, >>>> then installing Sid's flashplugin-nonfree. >>>> >>>> However, you may need to copy the plugin .so manually into the >>>> Firefox plugin directory. If Iceweasel is installed, you can find it >>>> there. >>>> >>>> Installing the Adobe way has never worked for me. I have always >>>> needed the Debian way. >>> All the installer does is download and unpack the file from adobe and >>> copy it to the appropriate directories. I already have the new >>> libflashplayer.so and I have it in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/ >>> Firefox recognizes that it is installed and starts to load the flash >>> video. Then it hangs. Using the installer from Sid will simply >>> download another copy of the file and place it in a directory that is >>> incorrect for me, so that I can copy it to where it already is. I >>> have already downloaded the .deb for Ubuntu from the Adobe site, >>> thinking that maybe there was a problem with the .tar.gz file, but I >>> get the same results. I don't see where having the Sid installer >>> download the same ..tar.gz file that I already have is going to make a >>> difference. >>> >> Hi, >> >> maybe have a look at /etc/alternatives to see if you have a link that >> can confuse things, and look at flashplayer-mozilla dependencies to see >> if you're missing something. > > I don't see anything there. > > Here is what I have tried since my last post: > > I have downloaded the adobe flashplayer archives for all of V10 and V9. > I installed, one at a time, V10_22_87, V10_15_3, V10_12_36 - none worked > I installed V9_115, which was what I originally had - it didn't work I > copied back my saved directory with firefox 3.05 - same results > > By this point, I was back to running the same version of firefox and > flashplayer that had been working together prior to trying to upgrade > flashplayer. I would have expected this to at least get me back to > where I was. No such luck. > > So I decided to try to go with straight up Debian and I installed > Iceweasel and flashplayer-mozilla. This also yielded the same results. > The YouTube video starts to load, displaying the initial frame, and > then it hangs, taking Iceweasel with it. All I can do at this point is > destroy the window and then kill any leftover processes. > > I don't know what to do at this point. I am about to do the Winblows > thing and reinstall in a spare set of partitions. At least I have the > space. Does anyone have any other suggestions before I have to go to > this extreme?
It's been almost a month since the last post i this thread. Did you give up or get it to work? If it works, what did you do to make it work? I too am getting tired of no flash. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
