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clip decides that the flash version is obsolete.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.

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If you're going through hell, keep going!  - Winston Churchill
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