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  Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-12 21:10 +0100
    Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-12 23:10 +0100
      Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-13 22:10 +0100
        Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-13 23:00 +0100
          Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-14 00:10 +0100
            Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-14 00:30 +0100
          Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-14 00:40 +0100
            Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-14 02:30 +0100

#178731 — Flash proplem

Hello everyone,
   I have upgraded my firefox esr as it came up on my upgrade list. 
Since then I have lost the flash ability in my browser.  I uninstalled 
flash and reinstalled in.  I am using the nonfree plug in for my debian 
machine.  I am at a complete loss as to what could have happened.  I did 
not do a complete removal of it just the shorter version using synaptic.

   I really need to get it working again but have no idea how.  Oh, I 
also backed out of the upgrade but that didn't solve the problem 
either.  Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
Maureen

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#178735

On 13/03/17 08:59, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I have upgraded my firefox esr as it came up on my upgrade list. Since
> then I have lost the flash ability in my browser.  I uninstalled flash
> and reinstalled in.  I am using the nonfree plug in for my debian
> machine.  I am at a complete loss as to what could have happened.  I did
> not do a complete removal of it just the shorter version using synaptic.

What is your version of firefox-esr? 45.8? Can you see Shockwave Flash 
in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins? Is it activated? What version is it? What 
version is displayed here (if any)?
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Mozilla disabled some old versions of Flash plugin by default, and 
introduced more aggressive use of click-to-play. I speculate that these 
changes may have made it to the ESR channel.

The good news is that Adobe have released Flash 24 for NPAPI (Firefox). 
I am using Flash Player 24.0.0.221 in firefox 52.0-1 amd64 on sid.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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#178789

On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1.  It shows in add-ons and is
> activated with version 10.1r999.  At the website it is 24.0.0221.  I am
> using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it.  Hope this helps.

Please keep emails on-list.

The flash with version 10.1r999 is I think GNU gnash. I would try 
uninstalling the gnash package to see if your problem is caused by some 
conflict or gnash being used for some sites that really need Adobe 
Flash. I have had no success with gnash.

Once gnash is uninstalled, please again check the version of Shockwave 
Flash in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and on the Adobe about page:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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#178794

On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>> My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1.  It shows in add-ons and is
>> activated with version 10.1r999.  At the website it is 24.0.0221.  I am
>> using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it.  Hope this helps.
>
> Please keep emails on-list.
>
> The flash with version 10.1r999 is I think GNU gnash. I would try 
> uninstalling the gnash package to see if your problem is caused by 
> some conflict or gnash being used for some sites that really need 
> Adobe Flash. I have had no success with gnash.
>
> Once gnash is uninstalled, please again check the version of Shockwave 
> Flash in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and on the Adobe about page:
> http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
>
> Kind regards,
>
I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the 
adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it.  I also re-installed 
flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.

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#178796

On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the
> adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it.  I also re-installed
> flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.

What is the output of:

ls -al /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/

I also just tried purging and reinstalling, both with 3.6 (jessie 
package) and 3.7 (sid), and found them to be horribly broken. The 
problem is that, when Adobe updates the plugin, the flashplugin-nonfree 
installation process is broken until the maintainer Bart Martens updates 
some remote configuration files to enable the new version.

I was able to get it working with the following manual installation of 
the Adobe .tar.gz. I use this method because it is what the 
flashplugin-nonfree installer does, and I hope that when the package 
installer is working, my manual installation will be compatible. I hope 
that this approach minimises mess.

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

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

Now see if it works in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

For future manual updates, only the tar command is required.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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#178798

On 03/13/2017 07:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>> I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the
>> adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it.  I also re-installed
>> flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.
>
> What is the output of:
>
> ls -al /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
total 52
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 13 17:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 203 root root 45056 Mar 13 17:53 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1691 Jun 22  2014 pubkey.asc

>
> I also just tried purging and reinstalling, both with 3.6 (jessie 
> package) and 3.7 (sid), and found them to be horribly broken. The 
> problem is that, when Adobe updates the plugin, the 
> flashplugin-nonfree installation process is broken until the 
> maintainer Bart Martens updates some remote configuration files to 
> enable the new version.
>
> I was able to get it working with the following manual installation of 
> the Adobe .tar.gz. I use this method because it is what the 
> flashplugin-nonfree installer does, and I hope that when the package 
> installer is working, my manual installation will be compatible. I 
> hope that this approach minimises mess.
>
> 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 
>
>
> 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
>
> Now see if it works in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and:
> http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
>
> For future manual updates, only the tar command is required.
>
> Kind regards,
>
When I tried the above I got this message
tar zxf0 
/usr/maureen/Downloads/to/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz 
libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
tar: Options '-[0-7][lmh]' not supported by *this* tar
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

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#178800

Please disregard my last post.  I realized my mistake and corrected it 
and it worked.  I now have flash.  Thank you very much for your patience 
and help.
Maureen

On 03/13/2017 05:58 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>
>
> On 03/13/2017 05:00 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> On 13/03/17 13:06, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>> My version of firefox is 45.830esr-1-deb7u1.  It shows in add-ons 
>>> and is
>>> activated with version 10.1r999.  At the website it is 24.0.0221.  I am
>>> using a 64 bit machine with jessie on it.  Hope this helps.
>>
>> Please keep emails on-list.
>>
>> The flash with version 10.1r999 is I think GNU gnash. I would try 
>> uninstalling the gnash package to see if your problem is caused by 
>> some conflict or gnash being used for some sites that really need 
>> Adobe Flash. I have had no success with gnash.
>>
>> Once gnash is uninstalled, please again check the version of 
>> Shockwave Flash in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and on the Adobe about 
>> page:
>> http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
> I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the 
> adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it.  I also re-installed 
> flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.
>
>

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#178805

On 14/03/17 12:36, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> Please disregard my last post.  I realized my mistake and corrected it
> and it worked.  I now have flash.  Thank you very much for your patience
> and help.

Great! Thanks for letting us know. (I guess that you spotted that you 
needed a capital letter "O" not zero "0" for the tar option.)

This really should be easier. There are other reports of this problem 
(and a workaround similar to mine):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851066

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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