Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2015 00:59:38 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe >>> it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? >> The real question is: "Why do you need HAL?" > Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want > to use my television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon > Prime Video. For that I need the computer attached to my television > to run Flash-player. > I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy. The question is > whether I can do so it Jessie. But the stumbling block, I think is > that I need HAL. > As I say, I know that such behaviour is a criminal offence, so please, > people, can we not go there. Problem is, and I think you know this, HAL has been deprecated since quite a long time and is no longer available or even compatible with a reasonably modern Linux system. But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. The package description says it is exactly for the purpose you intent to use it: ,---- | Description: Compatibility library to allow playback of flash DRM content | The Adobe Flash web browser plugin for Linux relies upon libhal to provide | information required by libadobecp (which libflashplayer.so retrieves from | the internet) for playing back drm content. | | Since HAL is no longer centric to most modern Linux systems (now we have | UDev, UDisks etc) - I'm only really providing this library because I see a | growing trend in the UK: ITV, Lovefilm and others are now using Silverlight | rather than Flash for their drm streams. Currently Silverlight DRM | protected content isn't supported on Linux (I'd like to see this change - I | have nothing against Silverlight). `---- I think this may solve your problems without frankensteining your Debian installation. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
