On Sunday 13 September 2015 05:46:15 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I tried pepper-flash for chromium but it didn't work..neither did > deb-multimedia. > The only thing which worked was Google Chrome and it really works.
Not for everything. None of them works for everything. You just have to mix and match. Lisi > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > On 2015-09-12, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2015 at 20:21:40 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > >> On 2015-09-11, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > > >> > Op 09-09-15 om 23:43 schreef Liam O'Toole: > > >> >> I've been using Flash from deb-multimedia for years without issue > > >> >> (on stable releases, I grant you). I use the following pinning: > > >> >> > > >> >> Package: * > > >> >> Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages > > >> >> Pin-Priority: 100 > > >> > > > >> > I don't know what this is doing, do you? > > >> > > >> Yes. When a package is available in both debian and deb-multimedia, > > >> the former is always preferred. > > > > > > Except when you use "Flash from deb-multimedia for years". > > > > I don't follow. Could you please explain? > > > > >> > I think you will have many packages on your system what are coming > > > > from > > > > >> > deb-multimedia. Maybe that's what you want, no idea. > > >> > > >> Not so. See above. > > >> > > >> > I think the people from deb-multimedia are doing their best to make > > > > good > > > > >> > packages. But I think Debian is too complex to mix with a repo like > > >> > deb-multimedia with many packages. Maybe you don't have problems > > >> > with flash, but I think your system is not "rock solid" anymore. And > > >> > what does deb-multimedia bring you for that? > > >> > > >> The system is no longer 'rock solid' as soon as you install any > > >> third-party software, be it via flashplayer-mozilla or > > >> flashplugin-nonfree or anything else. > > > > > > Both packages use the same source from Adobe. Why specifically should > > > one be less solid than the other when it comes to watching flash video? > > > > The point I was trying to make above neither is no more or less 'rock > > solid' than the other. > > > > -- > > > > Liam