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Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

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On 2015-09-08 18:25, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 06 September 2015 22:16:09 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/06/2015 12:54 PM, Staszek wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-03 13:17, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Likely the upgrade broke your manual installation. You should install
>>>> the flashplugin-nonfree package from non-free repo. Anyway be careful,
>>>> you probably will need to enable manually when needed in Iceweasel, as
>>>> it is disabled by default due to various security problems. Maybe they
>>>> are now fixed but it was this before I remove it. To upgrade the plugin,
>>>> issue: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ----- Staszek <stf.list.other@eisenbits.com> a écrit :
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I have upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie and my Adobe Flash Player in
>>>>> Iceweasel stopped working:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ iceweasel
>>>>>
>>>>> (process:6255): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
>>>>> 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
>>>>>
>>>>> ###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel timeout: cannot
>>>>> send/recv
>>>>>
>>>>> $
>>>>>
>>>>> When on Wheezy, I installed it manually by just copying
>>>>> libflashplayer.so to .mozilla/plugins .
>>>>> It doesn't work anymore, why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> I prefer to avoid non-free, therefore I created a separate user for
>>>>> libflashplayer.so which I downloaded from adobe.com. The page:
>>>>> http://www.adobe.com/uk/software/flash/about/ shows that I am having
>>>>> the latest version installed (11.2.202.491).
>>>
>>> This is not just an upgrade problem, because on fresh Jessie simply
>>> copying libflashplayer.so to .mozilla/plugins doesn't work either.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Installing 'flashplayer-mozilla' that is in Debian main will solve the
>> flash problem.
> 
> Immediately on reading this I installed flashplayer-mozilla on the computer I 
> was working on - my desktop - which is running Wheezy and TDE 3.5.13.2.  It 
> installed successfully and I have used it.

Ok so you installed non-free. What changes did it make to your system
or, more specifically, to your .mozilla directory?
Perhaps I could apply those changes manually and thus avoid granting
non-free the root access...

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adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Staszek <stf.list.other@eisenbits.com> - 2015-08-03 12:50 +0200
  Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2015-08-03 13:20 +0200
    Re: Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Staszek <stf.list.other@eisenbits.com> - 2015-09-06 22:10 +0200
      Re: Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 23:20 +0200
        Which program shows info about virtual packages --- apt-cache no good. (was ... Re: Re : adobe flash player  in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie) Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-09-08 17:10 +0200
        Re: Re : adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 18:00 +0200
          Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 18:40 +0200
        Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 18:30 +0200
          Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 18:40 +0200
            Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2015-09-08 19:40 +0200
              Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 20:00 +0200
                Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-09-08 20:10 +0200
                Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-09-08 20:30 +0200
                Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:00 +0200
                Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-09-09 12:00 +0200
                Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2015-09-08 21:40 +0200
          Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie Staszek <stf.list.other@eisenbits.com> - 2015-09-28 21:20 +0200

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