flashplugin-installer

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 03:23:06 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Monday 09 November 2015 03:09:13 Petter Adsen wrote:
> 
> > 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 That install for pepper-flash is outdated and doesn't work.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.)  
> 
> debian wheezy yes.

That explains it. :)

> > 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.  
> 
> I have had no access to a flash update that would actually install
> using an adobe installer in nearly 3 years here.  So there have been
> no updates to flash in that time frame here.  Its old, runs like a 1
> legged dog when it runs, and deserves to die.

I don't really use Flash at all, since much of the Flash material these
days are ads, and I block most of those. But I can't say I recall
having any problems with installing the updates.

Since you are on Debian, have you tried deb-multimedia? There is a
repackaged version of the Flash plugin there, that might work better
for you. But this is really a problem you should take up in a Debian
forum, as it is off-topic here. There was a looong thread on Flash on
the debian-user mailing list that started 03-Aug-2015 - check the
archives, it has quite a few tips on getting it working and might help
you.

> > 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?
> >  
> Not to my knowledge.  Where/how is that to be checked on ?

Open "about:addons", click "Plugins", see if Shockwave Flash is set to
"Ask to Activate". If it is, try "Always Activate".

There is also a setting in about:config that's called
plugins.click_to_play, but I can't tell you how these two settings
interact. It should probably be set to "false" if you want autoplay,
though.

Petter

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