On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to > > start > > at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's > > (Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that > > Macromedia Flash 9 must be installed. I can't do this because the > > system is booted with a 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. > > Could you not copy the Flash plugin .so file (which can be downloaded > from Adobe's website) to the browser's plugin directory mounted in the > chroot? Or am I misunderstanding it? > > > The instructions I followed in creating the chroot system implied it is > > possible to play the video's. If so, what have I failed to install? > > While I may not have the answer to your question, I wonder why you do > need the chroot if the sole purpose is to play Flash videos etc.; > because I am able to use Flash on an amd64 using nspluginwrapper > without having to start the browser from a chroot. Do you have any > other purpose served by possessing the chroot? I'd like to know if > there is something for which a 32-bit chroot would be an absolute > necessity. > > Thanks.
There may be no good reason for the 32-bit chroot. I was influenced by the following quote, "If you're going to point out nspluginwrapper, please also tell me how to make sound with Pulse/Audio work in that setup." from the http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/chroot. At the time I read this I had failed to make nspluginwrapper work and had read postings on the users list which suggested the 32-bit chroot was a good solution. Not understanding chroot I searched for guidance in setting upt the 32-chroot. Even though I don't use Pulse/Audio this reference suggested I was on the right track. Actually www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference sections 8.6.35.1-3 were the most help in setting up the 32-chroot and the result is pretty neat even if unnecessary. Finally, the truth is I still have not gotten nspluginwrapper to work. When I first tried some months ago (I work on this intermittantly) I had found some complicated instructions which led me to a point where init would have been destroyed. Yesterday I tried again with the straightforward instructions from iceape/help/plugins and the installation still fails with a message "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory." I'm working on fixing this. Tom > -- > Kumar Appaiah > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
