Hi there,

I've been running into the following problem:

On CentOS 7, I cannot watch online videos that are protected by Flash-DRM.

On CentOS 6.5 the same thing works fine because I was able to install the Hardware Abstraction Layer (hal) and that fixed the problem.

However, on CentOS 7 hal is not available anymore because its functions are now provided by systemd. So no videos here...

Now I downloaded the hal RPM for CentOS 6 and tried to install that in CentOS 7 but it complained about:

1. hal being obsolete because systemd is installed and
2. several dependencies (hal-info, hal-libs, ConsoleKit)

So I downloaded those RPMS (the dependencies), too and tried to install them. But with ConsoleKit I get the message "ConsoleKit is obsolete because systemd is installed" again, but no further dependency issues.

So my question is: Is there a way to make YUM install ConsoleKit even though systemd is installed? Because I think, if I could just get around that "obsolete" message, I could install ConsoleKit, then the other hal dependencies and then finally hal itself.


It seems to work in Arch: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=153744 even though systemd is installed... but they still got hal as an "official" package in their Arch User Repo while CentOS doesn't.


Any way to skip YUMs obsolete message? Or maybe any other way to watch Flash-DRM protected videos on CentOS 7?


Greetings,
rokyo

May have to forget flash in linux. Use wine to run firefox or chrome maybe. Adobe hates linux which is odd because at one time part of the company supported BeOS.

Doubt you can get it to work in html5 drm as in chrome 38 netflix.

Maybe someone has better solutions.

I have tried Firefox 33 on Wine, which does work, but is so slow that the video is unwatchable.

Maybe I should just stick to an older distro. CentOS 6.5 works and so does Debian Wheezy. I suspect that CentOS 7 would work, too, if they had hal in an official repo.

install Chrome and you won't need Flash

If you've downloaded the rpm, try installing with
rpm -i --nodeps

Yep, that worked perfectly, thanks!