On 28.03.15 20:21, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 08:04:15PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Mind you, they also say there that Flash Player 11.2 is the last which will target linux. I wonder what we're to use after that.
the correct answer is "good riddance to bad rubbish" but if you really need a more recent flash, try chromium or maybe even chrome if you can tolerate google's extra spyware (and if you can tolerate flash, tolerating google should be easy).
That's what I did: apt-get install chromium And while it'll play a youtube clip, it too won't play a BBC clip, as described in my immediately prior post. Heck, Midori behaves the same.
I'll poke around with these a bit, and see if I can coax any of them to actually use the flashplayer that's on my system.
try chromium - as i said, it has a newer version of flash built-in than will ever be available on linux...as you've found, adobe wont be releasing new versions for linux any more.
it also supports html5.
apt-get install chromium
i havent tried it on BBC but it might work :)
That's what I did after your initial suggestion. (I'd never tried chromium or midori before.) It installed fine, runs fine, but on a BBC clip decides that the flash version is obsolete. CLONG! Was that a penny dropping? I'm on debian stable, so the flashplayer that came across with firefox is going to be ... ah, venerable, innit? I'll have a go at fetching flashplayer from unstable, and see what happens then. Thanks again. Erik P.S. Hope you're feeling better, not just lighter. -- If you're going through hell, keep going! - Winston Churchill