flashplugin-installer

[Gene Heskett]

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 That install for pepper-flash is outdated and doesn't work.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.
>
> 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.

> 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 ?

> Petter

Thanks Petter.
>
> --
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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