About playing video

satimis · 03-17-2014, 03:14 AM

Hi all,

Debian 7.3 was installed on a VM of VirtualBox and gnash was installed as default

Iceweasel can play video on Youtube but unable to play video on Newspaper.

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge gnash

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'flashplugin-nonfree' has no installation candidate

Found following link;
flashplugin-nonfree has no release candidate?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=150977

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
adding:

Code:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -c

Code:

--2014-03-17 12:18:41--  http://backports.org/debian/archive.key
Resolving backports.org (backports.org)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `backports.org'
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

I was stuck here. Please help. Thanks

Rgds
satimis

evo2 · 03-17-2014, 03:38 AM

Hi,

it should be in the contrib section of the standard wheezy repo. See:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/flashplugin-nonfree

What is in your sources.list?

The forum post you linked to is from 2008 and is for Debian 4. It is not relevant.

Evo2.

satimis · 03-17-2014, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evo2

Hi,

it should be in the contrib section of the standard wheezy repo. See:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/flashplugin-nonfree

Hi,

I found it there as well but I couldn't install the package.

Quote:

What is in your sources.list?

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

Quote:

The forum post you linked to is from 2008 and is for Debian 4. It is not relevant.

Noted. Thanks

Rgds
satimis

Hungry ghost · 03-17-2014, 12:11 PM

You need to add contrib and non-free to the main repository (first two lines of your sources.list; actually, you only need it in your first line, but it's a good idea to add 'contrib' and 'non-free' to the source repository too). Don't forget to execute apt-get update after that.

evo2 · 03-17-2014, 05:14 PM

Hi,

as I wrote in my previous post it is in the contrib section, so you'll need to add that to your sources.list.
So,remove the last line and add "contrib" to the end of the first line.

Evo2

cascade9 · 03-18-2014, 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satimis

Found following link;
flashplugin-nonfree has no release candidate?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=150977

2008-05-29 18:30 . Worse than useless, its taken you the wrong way. You dont 'backport' from an older release to a newer release.

Quote:

Originally Posted by satimis

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

Fixed, though you might not need or want 'non-free'.

satimis · 03-18-2014, 09:44 AM

Hi all.

Thanks

I got it done.

/etc/apt/source.list

Code:

deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
....

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

rebooted iceweasel

Now I can play video on Youtube as well on newspaper.

Thanks again

Rgds
satimis