March Flash updates

13 Comments

1. 

   gauchao

   March 12, 2015 at 22:35

   Thank you Eric!

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2. 

   Mike Langdon (mlangdn)

   March 13, 2015 at 03:10

   Thanks Eric 🙂

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3. 

   lems

   March 13, 2015 at 11:47

   Hello,

   thanks for the updates, though I can’t seem to get pipelight flash to work. Ran pipelight-plugin –update as root and even tried with a new firefox profile. No luck. Using 11.2 for now. Would like to get rid of flash completely, but some sites require it, and even require flash higher than 11.2. Sigh.

   lems

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4. 

   Eduardo

   March 13, 2015 at 13:49

   Thank you Eric!

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5. 

   alienbob (Post author)

   March 14, 2015 at 13:04

   lems, it looks like the pipelight developers have not updated their dependencies script since 26 Feb. That is why running “pipelight –update” does not bring anything new.

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6. 

   shinji

   March 14, 2015 at 22:32

   Hello Eric,
   the new flashplugin “source” archive includes a LGPL directory.
   Your slackbuild doesn’t handle it, so it ends being installed in the
   / directory, which obviously isn’t its place.
   I think it should be installed alongside documentation.

   The fix is trivial, here’s a small patch for your slackbuild:

   —————————————————————————————–

   — flashplayer-plugin.SlackBuild.orig 2015-03-14 19:07:54.296321664
   +0100
   +++ flashplayer-plugin.SlackBuild 2015-03-14 19:10:49.275936222
   +0100
   @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
   PRGNAM=flashplayer-plugin
   VERSION=${VERSION:-“11.2.202.451”}
   MAJVER=$(echo $VERSION | cut -d. -f1)
   -BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
   +BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
   TAG=${TAG:-“alien”}

   # Where do we look for sources?
   @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@
   # Add documentation:
   mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
   mv *.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/ || true
   +mv LGPL $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/ || true
   cp -a $SRCDIR/$(basename $0) $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM–$VERSION/$PRGNAM.S
   lackBuild
   chown -R root:root $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
   find $PKG/usr/doc -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

   —————————————————————————————–

   As always, thanks for all your hard work!

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7. 

   alienbob (Post author)

   March 15, 2015 at 12:48

   Hi shinji,

   Good catch!
   My “checkpkg” script did not yet check for files in the root directory which do not belong there.
   I added that feature to the script (http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/checkpkg) and I am now rebuilding the repository with an updated flashplayer-plugin package.

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8. 

   lems

   March 16, 2015 at 13:03

   It seems the pipelight-script has now been updated. I had to remove pluginreg.dat after pipelight was initialized (creating the ~/.wine-pipelight directory and downloading the flash plugin). I run my firefox browser as different user, and still have no luck enabling it here, but it worked when I ran it as my user.

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9. 

   Alexandre R. Vianna

   March 17, 2015 at 03:23

   Hi,
   This is my first time with Alien’s help.

   I tried Flash.
   It worked, but there is a message:
   Shokwave Flash is known to be vulnerable and should be updated!

   What is wrong?
   Tks!

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10. 

    Alexandre R. Vianna

    March 17, 2015 at 03:24

    P.S.: I am runnig it in Firefox 26.1!

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11. 

    alienbob (Post author)

    March 18, 2015 at 11:22

    Alexandre –

    What Flash? The Linux version or the Windows version which you use together with Pipelight?

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12. 

    Alexandre R. Vianna

    March 19, 2015 at 04:23

    Thank you, Bob.
    I will try to install pipelight – linux version.

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13. 

    Alexandre R. Vianna

    April 15, 2015 at 03:12

    Hi!

    Flash … 457 is released!

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