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  flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-22 07:40 +0200
    Re: flash in stretch again deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 08:40 +0200
      Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-23 22:50 +0200
        Re: flash in stretch again The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-06-23 23:00 +0200
          Re: flash in stretch again Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 00:30 +0200
        Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-24 02:40 +0200
          Re: flash in stretch again Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 03:40 +0200
            Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-24 06:00 +0200
              Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-24 06:20 +0200
              Re: flash in stretch again Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 08:10 +0200
          Re: flash in stretch again deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 09:00 +0200
            Re: flash in stretch again Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-06-24 09:10 +0200
              Re: flash in stretch again deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 12:20 +0200
                Re: flash in stretch again davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-24 20:00 +0200
                  Re: flash in stretch again Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-06-24 20:10 +0200
                    Re: flash in stretch again davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-24 20:30 +0200
                  Re: flash in stretch again deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 22:00 +0200
          Re: flash in stretch again Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-24 13:20 +0200
            Re: flash in stretch again Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 18:50 +0200
            Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-24 22:40 +0200
              Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-25 01:00 +0200
                Re: flash in stretch again The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-06-25 01:30 +0200
                  Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-25 03:00 +0200
                  Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-25 04:20 +0200
                    Re: flash in stretch again Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-25 21:50 +0200
                      Re: flash in stretch again Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2017-06-25 21:50 +0200
                      Re: flash in stretch again Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-06-26 00:00 +0200
                        Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-26 00:10 +0200
                          Re: flash in stretch again Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 18:40 +0200
                        Re: flash in stretch again Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 18:30 +0200
              Re: flash in stretch again Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-25 11:30 +0200
    Re: flash in stretch again Wellington Terumi Uemura <wellingtonuemura@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 18:10 +0200
      Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-06-22 18:20 +0200
        Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again) Wellington Terumi Uemura <wellingtonuemura@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 19:00 +0200
          Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-06-22 19:10 +0200
      Opera/Firefox speed, was Re: flash in stretch again David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-13 00:40 +0200
    Re: flash in stretch again Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-06-22 21:00 +0200
      Re: flash in stretch again Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-06-23 23:00 +0200

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#182500 — flash in stretch again

I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That is all 
fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there any help out 
there for this program.  I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and 
it won't work either.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch.  Thanks.

Maureen

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#182501

Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That is all
> fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there any help out
> there for this program.  I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and
> it won't work either.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch.  Thanks.
> 
> Maureen

did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed

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#182558

On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>
>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That is all
>> fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there any help out
>> there for this program.  I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and
>> it won't work either.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch.  Thanks.
>>
>> Maureen
> did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed
>
>
Yes I did try firefox-esr and it doesn't work.  I have installed 
flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 and pepperflashplugin-nonfree 
1.8.1+deb8u1

I had jessie and I went to synaptic and it upgraded to stretch.  I 
should have paid more attention to what I was doing.  Neither flash will 
work in firefox-esr or chromium.  I only tried chrome to see if it would 
work as I don't use it normally.

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On 2017-06-23 at 16:46, Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote:
> 
>> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>> 
>>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That
>>> is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there
>>> any help out there for this program.  I even installed Chromium
>>> with pepperflash and it won't work either.  Any help would be
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch.
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Maureen
>> did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed
> 
> Yes I did try firefox-esr and it doesn't work.  I have installed
> flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 and pepperflashplugin-nonfree
> 1.8.1+deb8u1

When did you run the flashplugin-nonfree install?

As far as I can determine, that package has been in a nonworking state
since January, to the point where it was left out of the stretch
release. That's not because of any problem in the package internals, but
because something changed *outside of* the package - in particular, on
Adobe's Website - and something *else* outside of the package has not
been updated to match.

What that package does is see what Flash-for-Linux version is available
on Adobe's Website, download a hash file for that same version from one
Debian developer's personal Debian Webspace, download the Flash
installer from Adobe's Website, then compare the installer's hash
against the one from the hash file. This happens automatically at
download, and can be triggered manually later by running
'update-flashplugin-nonfree --install'. The apparent purpose of all of
this is to make sure that what the package downloads and runs isn't
malicious code (due to e.g. domain hijacking).

What happened in January is that Adobe released a new Flash version, and
no one copied a matching hash file into place. Several new Flash
versions have been released since then, with no more reaction, despite
several bug reports on this subject (most or all of which have been
merged into one in the bugtracker, so plainly the Debian developers know
about the issue).

Without the hash file, existing versions of this package will never be
able to download the Flash installer, and so installing or gpgrading
Flash will fail. If you download the Flash installer from Adobe
yourself, and run it (as root, with any needed options) yourself, it
should still work - but the flashplugin-nonfree package itself is
currently useless, and that's why it wasn't included with the stretch
release.

I've been concerned about this exact failure state, in lesser form
(unreasonable delay in getting access to security fixes), ever since I
first noticed that the package was pulling an upstream-version-specific
file from a place apparently controlled by only one single person...

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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#182563

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:59:19 -0400
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:

...

> Flash will fail. If you download the Flash installer from Adobe
> yourself, and run it (as root, with any needed options) yourself, it
> should still work - but the flashplugin-nonfree package itself is

FTR, downloading the .gz archive from Adobe and copying over the
included 'libflashplayer.so' into the appropriate directory (e.g.,
$HOME/.mozilla/plugins), as one's normal user, also works. It's what
I've been doing.

Celejar

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#182566

On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote:
>> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That is 
>>> all
>>> fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there any help out
>>> there for this program.  I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and
>>> it won't work either.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Maureen
>> did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed
>>
>>
> Yes I did try firefox-esr and it doesn't work.  I have installed 
> flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 and pepperflashplugin-nonfree 
> 1.8.1+deb8u1
>
> I had jessie and I went to synaptic and it upgraded to stretch.  I 
> should have paid more attention to what I was doing.  Neither flash 
> will work in firefox-esr or chromium.  I only tried chrome to see if 
> it would work as I don't use it normally.
>
>
Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know 
how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It 
worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.

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On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
 [...]
> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.

Works fine for me in firefox-esr in stretch using flashplayer from Marillat.

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free

Then:
# apt-get update, then apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla

Good luck!

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#182573

On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>   [...]
>> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
>> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
>> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.
> Works fine for me in firefox-esr in stretch using flashplayer from Marillat.
>
> Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
>
> Then:
> # apt-get update, then apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
>
> Good luck!
>
>
I did as you said and I got the same results as I did before I installed 
it.  Two games just send me to Adobe and one just keeps loading but 
never does a thing.  Something is wrong and I can't find the damn 
thing.  Any other suggestions?

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On 06/23/2017 11:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
>> On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>   [...]
>>> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I 
>>> know
>>> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I 
>>> use.  It
>>> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to 
>>> Stretch.
>> Works fine for me in firefox-esr in stretch using flashplayer from 
>> Marillat.
>>
>> Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
>>
>> Then:
>> # apt-get update, then apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
> I did as you said and I got the same results as I did before I 
> installed it.  Two games just send me to Adobe and one just keeps 
> loading but never does a thing.  Something is wrong and I can't find 
> the damn thing.  Any other suggestions?
>
>
> I also tried this one:

Download page:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Download the .tar.gz (should be the same as this link):
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_24.0_for_Linux_64-bit_(.tar.gz)_-_NPAPI&sType=5504&standalone=1 
<https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_24.0_for_Linux_64-bit_%28.tar.gz%29_-_NPAPI&sType=5504&standalone=1> 


For the next steps, you need to be root.

Extract the library (change the path to where you downloaded the .tar.gz):

tar zxfO /path/to/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz 
libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Fix permissions:

chmod 644 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Register the plugin:

update-alternatives --quiet --install 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so flash-mozilla.so 
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so 50


with no results at all.  Any other suggestions?

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#182577

On 06/23/2017 08:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
>> On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>   [...]
>>> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
>>> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
>>> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.
>> Works fine for me in firefox-esr in stretch using flashplayer from
>> Marillat.
>>
>> Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
>>
>> Then:
>> # apt-get update, then apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
> I did as you said and I got the same results as I did before I installed
> it.  Two games just send me to Adobe and one just keeps loading but
> never does a thing.  Something is wrong and I can't find the damn
> thing.  Any other suggestions?


You need to search and find all "libflashplayer.so" on your computer and 
delete them and then reinstall flashplayer and that should fix your problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Buster - Plasma 5.8.7 - Kernel 4.9.0-3 - EXT4 at sda24
Registered Linux User #380263

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#182578

Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote:
>>> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch.  That is
>>>> all
>>>> fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again.  Is there any help out
>>>> there for this program.  I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and
>>>> it won't work either.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Maureen
>>> did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed
>>>
>>>
>> Yes I did try firefox-esr and it doesn't work.  I have installed
>> flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 and pepperflashplugin-nonfree
>> 1.8.1+deb8u1
>>
>> I had jessie and I went to synaptic and it upgraded to stretch.  I
>> should have paid more attention to what I was doing.  Neither flash
>> will work in firefox-esr or chromium.  I only tried chrome to see if
>> it would work as I don't use it normally.
>>
>>
> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.

you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's
much easier to use the debian package

$ dpkg -l | grep flash
ii  flashplayer-mozilla                    3:26.0.0.126-dmo1                      
amd64        Adobe Flash Player

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#182579

Hi, 
 
> you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's
> much easier to use the debian package
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep flash
> ii  flashplayer-mozilla                    3:26.0.0.126-dmo1
> amd64        Adobe Flash Player

I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozilla. Where is it? I am running 
debian/testing.

Best regards

Hans

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#182593

Hans wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>> you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's
>> much easier to use the debian package
>> 
>> $ dpkg -l | grep flash
>> ii  flashplayer-mozilla                    3:26.0.0.126-dmo1
>> amd64        Adobe Flash Player
> 
> I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozilla. Where is it? I am
> running debian/testing.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hans

https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/package/flashplayer-mozilla
https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64/package/flashplayer-mozilla

$ apt-cache show flashplayer-mozilla
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Source: flash-player
Version: 3:26.0.0.126-dmo1
Installed-Size: 16897
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@deb-multimedia.org>
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: flash-player-properties
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1),
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.22.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~) | libnspr4-0d (>=
1.8.0.10), libnss3 (>= 2:3.13.4-2~) | libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.0~beta3),
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxt6,
libcurl3, iceweasel | www-browser
Recommends: gsfonts-x11
Suggests: kde-config-flash-player
Conflicts: flash-player-properties, flashplugin-nonfree
Description: Adobe Flash Player
 The Flash Player lets you experience animation and entertainment in your
 web browser.
 .
 NPAPI flash for mozilla based browsers.
Description-md5: 0057e4a8106ad0fc5d9dedec585b9e7b
Bugs: mailto:marillat@deb-multimedia.org
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
Section: non-free/web
Priority: optional
Filename:
pool/non-free/f/flash-player/flashplayer-mozilla_26.0.0.126-dmo1_amd64.deb
Size: 6194900
MD5sum: 60de01391b54cc2c067be598673f0487
SHA1: 5e830e65e9ef4f4025ad06b757bcb5aa517e69ad
SHA256: ec98a663c5e07ac14684e04b93f520f92b1ea3e7a0292885bd325ddec8ec2025



regrds

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#182604

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, deloptes wrote:
> Hans wrote:
[...]
>> I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozilla. Where is it? I am
>> running debian/testing.
[...]
>
> https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/package/flashplayer-mozilla
> https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64/package/flashplayer-mozilla
>
> $ apt-cache show flashplayer-mozilla
> Package: flashplayer-mozilla
[...]
> Section: non-free/web

If a user does not enable the non-free component of the archive,
apt-cache show will show no result for that search.

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#182606

Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original  debian one. 
So it is clear, why it cannot be found.

As far as I know, this repo is meanwhile orphaned (or is this changed in the 
last years?) as the multimedia packages are integrated now in the original 
repos of debian.

Do I miss something?

Best

Hans
> 
> > https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/package/f
> > lashplayer-mozilla
> > https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64/package
> > /flashplayer-mozilla
> > 
> > $ apt-cache show flashplayer-mozilla
> > Package: flashplayer-mozilla
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Section: non-free/web
> 
> If a user does not enable the non-free component of the archive,
> apt-cache show will show no result for that search.

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#182607

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Hans wrote:

> Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original
> debian one.  So it is clear, why it cannot be found.

Yeah, I see now. I totally overlooked that it was a third-party repo
package. Sorry for the pointless noise. You got that right.

> As far as I know, this repo is meanwhile orphaned (or is this
> changed in the last years?) as the multimedia packages are
> integrated now in the original repos of debian.

On the debian wiki, there is the DebianMultimedia/FAQ page. On that
page, FAQ numbers 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 explain (far better than I
could) the (non-)relationship of deb-multimedia.org to
DebianMultimedia:

   https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ

> Do I miss something?

Nothing but a can of worms, AFAICT.

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#182610

davidson@freevolt.org wrote:

> If a user does not enable the non-free component of the archive,
> apt-cache show will show no result for that search.

The OP stated he downloaded the non free version. He/Her's problem is it
doesn't work and the goal is to work. 

If OP does add the repo and use the package, chances are good to complete
the goal.

regards

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#182595

On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know 
> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It 
> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.
>

Have you verified that 'update-alternatives --list flash-mozilla.so'

returns

 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so 
or
 /home/user_maureen/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

?


-- 
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.

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#182603

On 6/24/17, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
>> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
>> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.
>>
>
> Have you verified that 'update-alternatives --list flash-mozilla.so'
>
> returns
>
>  /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
> or
>  /home/user_maureen/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>
> ?


Maureen, I was wondering the same (not so "simple") thing: Did
libflashplayer.so eventually and ultimately install in the right place
in your file hierarchy?

In years past, I've gone so far as to put it everywhere I thought
rational until it would work. My method of operation was/is to target
any sub-directories with the name "plugins" for each and every browser
I used.

Eventually I picked one higher profile location for the "real",
original libflashplayer.so file. I then symlinked everywhere else so
that I only had to replace that one primary file on upgrades. It never
caused me noticeable conflicts, but that might not be the same
experience for others.

The only caveat I've faced so far is that I have to remember to repeat
that process when I start from scratch with each new, regular
debootstrap (full operating system install) attempt.

Another thing is there is at least one related "toggle" usually
available in a browser's preference settings. It would be about
plugins if it exists. It would be about enabling/disabling/deleting
and is something that it never hurts to check off on a debug list.

Just thinking out loud... :)

Cindy :)

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Cindy-Sue Causey
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#182611

On 06/24/2017 07:09 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Are there no fixes to this problem?  I have tried everything that I know
>> how to do.  Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use.  It
>> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.
>>
> Have you verified that 'update-alternatives --list flash-mozilla.so'
>
> returns
>
>   /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
> or
>   /home/user_maureen/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>
> ?
>
It returns /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
it also return one for gnash.  could this be the problem or confusion?

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