On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro...@yahoo.com> 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?
A shot in the dark . . . (for youtube, at least). This was just brought to my attention. I haven't yet tried it. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 > > -- > Marc Shapiro > mshapiro...@yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- www.nealhogan.net www.lambdaserver.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
