flashplugin-installer

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 02:33:28 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 November 2015 15:01:55 Lee Gold wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2015, at 08:51 AM, Scott Blair wrote:  
> > > On 11/08/2015 10:41 AM, Lee Gold wrote:  
> > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2015, at 08:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:  
> > > >> Greetings all;
> > > >>
> > > >> One of those somebody has to ask it questions.  I just updated
> > > >> my lappy, which hadn't been in a couple months, which has a
> > > >> 14.04 LUbuntu install on it, and its wasting time yet trying to
> > > >> download the tarball of adobe's flashplayer.  
> > > >
> > > > snip...
> > > >
> > > > Just to add an option here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/install-pepper-flash-player-for.htm
> > > >l  
> > >
> > > That install for pepper-flash is outdated and doesn't work.  
> 
> And it doesn't resolve from here either.
> sudo apt-get update
> ...
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/skunk/pepper-flash/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources  
> 404  Not Found
> 
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/skunk/pepper-flash/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages  
> 404  Not Found
> 
> 
> > Works fine w/FF and 14.04. Have you tried it???  
> 
> See above and previous post.

Gene,

Are you doing this on an Ubuntu host? See the "wheezy" in the link
above? It is where the codename for the distribution should be, and
Wheezy is Debian, not Ubuntu. You might be able to install the package
by hand-editing the sources.list file and exchange "wheezy" for
"trusty" or something like that, but there is no guarantee that an
Ubuntu package will work on your system if it isn't Ubuntu. (The fact
that you say "Iceweasel" and not "Firefox" is also a hint that you
might be running something else.)

As for your questions about Flash: Adobe agreed to release security
fixes for the Linux version for a given window of time (until 2017,
until the end of 2017 - something like that) but no other improvements.
That's why there are occasional updates to the package.

Google has already disabled autoplay of some Flash content in Chrome
IIRC, the Flash plugin in Firefox will at some point be disabled, and
mobile platforms don't support Flash at all. The web seems to be moving
to HTML5 and H.264 video, so Flash is indeed dying a death of a thousand
cuts - it just takes time.

I'm not sure why you are getting the dialog on whether or not to allow
the playing of Flash content, is it possible that you have enabled
click-to-play for Flash?

Petter

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