Hi all
I'm running a freshly installed lenny (lenny beta2 netinst) + Gnome and
Iceweasel 3.0.1.
I have 2 questions:
1) libflashplayer.so
On my old system (sarge, dist-upgraded to testing), I had flash working with
flashplugin-nonfree. I did some research (including the last flash-related
threads) and it seems that libflashplayer.so is now available in backports or
sid (flashplugin-nonfree) or debian-multimedia (flashplayer-mozilla).
Say I want to go a "standard repository route" (i.e. testing main contrib
non-free, none of the above). `apt-cache search` offers 3 alternative browser
plugins, which are quite new to me:
libflash-mozplugin
mozilla-plugin-gnash
swfdec-mozilla
Which of these is recommended, if any. What do people use?
2) swfdec-mozilla, swfdec-gnome
In an attempt to test if libflashplayer.so would still work, I
* downloaded it from the Adobe site and put it into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ (or
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/)
* deleted .mozilla/firefox/blablaxyz.default/pluginreg.dat
But about:plugins said that IW uses libswfdecmozilla.so. Going to a site with
flash content invokes libswfdecmozilla.so, and no video is played.
Trying to `apt-get remove --purge swfdec-mozilla` or swfdec-gnome would result
in a complete removal of Gnome(!), since, according to `apt-cache showpkg
swfdec-mozilla`, it reverse-depends on Gnome.
Why is that, if it's "only" a browser plugin?
To deactivate it's usage, I renamed
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/__libswfdecmozilla.so
But even then, about:plugins tells me that IW uses "__libswfdecmozilla.so".
Very impressive. I had to remove(!) it from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to force
IW to use libflashplayer.so.
So, is this the only way to switch swfdec-mozilla off?
TIA!
best,
steve
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