The google chrome plugin on Linux will not play netflix, hbo, hulu or other
DRM flash content.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote:

> An alternative could be to just use Google Chrome (note, not chromium) as
> Google Chrome has a flash plugin built into the browser, unlike chromium.
>
> Maybe it will solve your needs?
> http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-google-chrome.html
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: paul g
> Date:02/27/2014 8:30 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: TCLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'
>
> Thank you for responding so quickly. With the Debian Wheezy and Java
> extension plugin I have installed in Iceweasel it sems to work very well
> with information on Youtube but not Gmail or Hotmail login screen. At one
> point yesterday I had the shockwave flash plugin showing up in Iceweasel
> then. I believe youtube would not work. I think there may be a code
> conflict of some sort.
>
> As I know I am wondering about this initial installation report of->
>
> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install
> flashplugin-nonfree
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   flashplugin-nonfree
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
> (Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from
> .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...
> ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc
> More information might be available at:
>   http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
>
> It only shows up the first time after everything is purged out etc. from
> apt.
>
> Should I perhaps try to look at setting a symbolic link or something of
> that nature? I do understand that Adobe Flash is not pure GNU. But Adobe
> flash works so well on Linux Mint and Ubuntu so easily for a noob like me.
> I am just curious and I thank you for your help.
>
> Paul G
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: stuporglue at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:05:49 -0600
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> adobe has stopped supporting flash on Linux. Even if you can find a
> working older plugin, it won't  have the ability to handle DRM stuff like
> Netflix.
>
>
> I don't have Netflix, but the old plugin version is still works for Hulu,
> Amazon Prime and YouTube.
>
> The  current "best" solution is to install pipelight -- which sets up a
> modified wine instance that allows Linux browsers to use native windows
> versions of plugins.  It is far from perfect, but it will get you a fully
> functional flash environment -- albeit a slightly buggy one.
>
>
> Bleh. Reminds me of the bad old days of using NDISWrapper for Wifi. I
> can't remember the last time I even saw someone asking about NDISWrapper --
> I'm glad that's behind us finally. Hopefully some day this pipelight hack
> will be equally unnecessary.
>
> --
> Michael Moore
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am having some 'issues' trying to install Adobe flash-player on Debian
> 'Wheezy'
> running:
>
> Kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64
>
> Gnome 3
>
> Iceweasel 24.3.0
>
> I have successfully installed openjdk- and icedtea-
>
> I have read quite a few forums etc.
>
>
>
> Below are the content's of my /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> #
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64
> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64
> LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main
>
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main
> # deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main
> # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
> # deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://lug.mtu.edu/debian wheezy-backports main
>
> I have run the command: sudo apt-get update
>
> then have run the command: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>
> then receive output:
>
> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install
> flashplugin-nonfree
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   flashplugin-nonfree
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
> (Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from
> .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...
> ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc
> More information might be available at:
>   http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
>
>
>
> Here are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls -lah
> total 36K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:30 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19K Jul 25  2013 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 Feb 26 02:09 libjavaplugin.so ->
> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K Jul 27  2012
> librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
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>
> Does it work in the Chromium browser?
>
> I haven't been able to get Flash working in Firefox on Debian (64 bit) for
> some time. It does work in Chromium though. I haven't spent much time on it
> though since I don't use Flash all that much.
>
> --
> Michael Moore
>
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