Robolinux Debian - Adobe Flash not running automatically
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Robolinux Debian - Adobe Flash not running automatically
just recently I have found (while using Robolinux) that Adobe flash player doesn't automatically load & play content- one gets a popup box to 'activate' which then allows the content to be played but for every new web-page one loads with Flash player content- it still won't play automatically. When one goes to the Adobe flash player site, there is a note that says "Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux." Here's the link (& notice there is a choice of 4 versions to download from the drop-down box near the bottom) http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ is there a way around this, or the most appropriate version to try?
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
Posts: 2,628
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Do you have, from the deb-multimedia.org repo (not a debian repo), flashplayer-mozilla installed. Will get you the same thing and supply the upgrades in your normal update/upgrade cycles.
Code:
## debian multimedia
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free
## deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free
That is for sid obviously. Edit it to fit your system.
Under sid that currently provides;
3:11.2.202.425-dmo2
Adobe is offering
11.2.202.425
Difference is that the one from the repo is for Debian. Same flash version.
If you do get a popup, it is because your browser (iw or ff) blocks any version of flash below 11.2.202.425. This is because of a flaw found up to version 11.2.202.424.
If you do get a popup, it is because your browser (iw or ff) blocks any version of flash below 11.2.202.425. This is because of a flaw found up to version 11.2.202.424.
so how do I revert back to the previous version? - is that what I need to do?
@ widget - that is all a little over my head... !
Last edited by blueinca99; 01-04-2015 at 04:13 AM.
Distribution: Debian Testing, Stable, Sid and Manjaro, Mageia 3, LMDE
Posts: 2,628
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OK. That looks a bit strange. Wheezy should have more than that in it by default. And you must be being prompted for the CD every time you try to do anything.
Did you set up a root password when you installed?
Did you enable the use of sudo in any other way?
What is your defualt text editor? I assume that it would be gedit, looks like they use the Gnome by default but offer Xfce and Lmde.
What is the output of;
Code:
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
If that turns up anything we need to know this as we do not want to mess with your system by adding repos that may not, inspite of being compatible with Debian, be compatible with packages from any custom repos maintained by your distro.
If that turns up anything we need to know this as we do not want to mess with your system by adding repos that may not, inspite of being compatible with Debian, be compatible with packages from any custom repos maintained by your distro.
that's exactly what I am concerned about, because essentially everything else on the system is working really well, I don't want to cause subsequent issue to fix this relatively small problem.
Thank you for your help btw.
Yes I did set up a root password when I installed. Gnome is used as text editor.
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