flashplugin-nonfree from backports. On Monday 14 July 2008 10:03, Jeff Soules wrote: > Hi all, > > Open to any advice. My ultimate goal is to get a fully functional Flash > player in a browser in my Debian Etch installation (amd64 base). > I use Gnome and don't care much for KDE & Konqueror. > > Here's what I've tried so far: > > *Iceweasel + swfdec -- without success. I'm looking to use YouTube > successfully here, whereas with this setup I've yet to see anything in > Flash actually work. > > *gnash -- package appears to be broken in Etch, and I can't resolve > the dependencies manually. > > *I looked into running out of a partial chroot a la this suggestion[1], > but that seemed like an ugly kludge to begin with, and I didn't > really have the chops to make it work anyway. > > Failing that, I attempted to install and run SimpleFox in a 32-bit > mode, but to do this I've needed to update my version of gtk+2.0 > (apparently in prepackaged Etch the version doesn't go beyond > 2.8, and there doesn't seem to be anything on backports that > would bring me more up to date). > > Then I attempted to manually install gtk+2.0 in the latest > versions as from [2], which in turn requires a new Glib and > a new Pango. Attempted to compile these under /opts > as per [3], but while I can get glib and pango to compile without > incident, the gtk compile is failing due to an undefined symbol. > (I've copied the last few lines below at the bottom of this message). > > So, perhaps I'm going about this all wrong. But it seems to me > I need either: > - Some form of 32-bit browser, so I can install the (admittedly > non-free) Adobe flash player; > - Some way to make some of the free alternatives work well > enough to meet my needs. > > I am open to advice on any of these points. I'm more concerned > with the pragmatics of getting it to work than with the OSS purity > of the system, but ideally I'd like something that isn't an ugly > hack. Moreover, given the recent traffic on this list regarding > inadequacies in IW, I am tempted to try to install FF3 anyway; > to do that I suppose I would need to get those libraries updated > somehow...? > > Thank you to everyone who read this long story, and to anyone > who can offer some good suggestions :) > > Best, > Jeff > > > > [1]: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/583 > [2]: http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html > [3]: http://www.onelittlesysadmin.com/ > > > Compilation errors: > > [Many many libraries are compiled successfully] > > make[4]: Entering directory `/opt/gtk+-2.12.11/modules/input' > /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/etc/gtk-2.0 > ../../gtk/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules Cannot load module > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-xim.so: > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-xim.so: undefined > symbol: g_assertion_message_expr > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-xim.so does not > export GTK+ IM module API: > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-xim.so: undefined > symbol: g_assertion_message_expr > Cannot load module > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-multipress.so: > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-multipress.so: > undefined symbol: g_assertion_message_expr > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-multipress.so does > not export GTK+ IM module API: > /opt/gtk+-2.12.11/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-multipress.so: > undefined symbol: g_assertion_message_expr > make[4]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/gtk+-2.12.11/modules/input' > make[3]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/gtk+-2.12.11/modules/input' > make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/gtk+-2.12.11/modules/input' > make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/gtk+-2.12.11/modules' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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