Does linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406 work under stable/10?

[David Wolfskill]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:08:43PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> ...
> >> It's working here.  Do you actually have the Flash plugin port
> >> installed?  The pkg delete step will have deleted the old one, and then
> >> www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 must be manually installed.
> >
> > g1-252(10.1-P)[1] pkg info \*flash\*
> > linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406
> > g1-252(10.1-P)[2]
> >
> > That was installed (in this case) by virtue of the "portmaster
> > emulators/linux-c6".
> 
> It didn't here, but as long as it's installed now, it doesn't matter.

One would rather like to think so, yes. :-}

> ...
> > and re-started firefox; same symptoms.
> 
> Do you have Adblock, Flashblock, or NoScript installed in Firefox?

I've had NoScript installed for ... a couple of months or so.  And Flash
had been working -- e.g., for listening to
<http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/>. :-)

> ...
> > "about:plugins" seems to report:
> >
> > Shockwave Flash
> >
> >    File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
> >    Path: /common/home/david/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
> >    Version:
> >    State: Enabled
> >    Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
> >
> > MIME Type	Description	Suffixes
> > application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash	swf
> > application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player	spl
> 
> Mine shows two, possibly because of an old 
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ link.
> 
>      File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so,npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>      Path: /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so,/usr/home/wblock/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

In the mean time, I received advice (off-list) to install
emulators/pipelight, with the assertion that that would permit one to
use the MS Windows version of Flash 14 (as Adobe has apparently
abandoned Linux, even).

I tried that -- it brought in:
        Installation of devel/libcxxrt (libcxxrt-20131225_1)
        Installation of devel/libc++ (libc++-208080)
        Installation of lang/p5-Error (p5-Error-0.17022)
        Installation of converters/p5-MIME-Base64 (p5-MIME-Base64-3.14)
        Installation of devel/cvsps (cvsps-2.1_1)
        Installation of mail/p5-Net-SMTP-SSL (p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01_2)
        Installation of security/p5-GSSAPI (p5-GSSAPI-0.28)
        Installation of security/p5-Authen-SASL (p5-Authen-SASL-2.16)
        Installation of devel/git (git-2.1.2)
        Installation of devel/argp-standalone (argp-standalone-1.3_2)
        Installation of sysutils/prelink (prelink-20111012_1)
        Installation of emulators/wine-compholio (wine-compholio-1.7.29,1)
        Installation of ftp/wget (wget-1.15_2)
        Installation of sysutils/flock (flock-2.19)
        Installation of devel/libnotify (libnotify-0.7.5_1)
        Installation of x11/zenity (zenity-2.32.1_3)
        Installation of emulators/pipelight (pipelight-0.2.7.3_5)

Then, when I first tried "pipelight-plugin --update" I got an error:
ERROR: cannot verify bitbucket.org's certificate, issued by '/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.

So I found that pipelight-plugin is a bash script, copied it to /tmp,
hacked it:

g1-252(10.1-P)[38] diff -u `which pipelight-plugin` /tmp/pipelight-plugin 
--- /usr/local/bin/pipelight-plugin     2014-07-19 20:26:50.000000000 -0700
+++ /tmp/pipelight-plugin       2014-10-27 15:06:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@
 if command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        download_file()
        {
-               wget -O "$1" "$2"
+               wget --no-check-certificate -O "$1" "$2"
        }
 elif command -v fetch >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        download_file()
g1-252(10.1-P)[39] 

and then:
* sudo /tmp/pipelight-plugin --remove-mozilla-plugins
* sudo /tmp/pipelight-plugin --create-mozilla-plugins
* sudo /tmp/pipelight-plugin --update

and I seem to have working Flash now.


I'm not quite sure that this qualifies as "success," exactly.... :-}

Peace,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
Taliban: Evil cowards with guns afraid of truth from a 14-year old girl.

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