On Wednesday 18 November 2015 23:55:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > >>> for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't > > >>> subscribe the debian-user list.) > > >>> > > >>> To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install > > >>> youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl > > >> > > >> Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, > > > > > > That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed > > > every new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a > > > bunch of them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04 on it > > > but there is nothing for it to download. So quit advertising that > > > it works and just let flash die the horrible security hole ridden > > > death it deserves. > > > > > >> or watch with > > >> Google Chrome. > > > > > > Can you stop it from calling home? Tcpdump and wireshark are quite > > > educational tools. > > > > > >> I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those > > >> do. I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most > > >> days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if > > >> there has been a new newsflash on an important story. Think of the > > >> disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time! > > > > > > So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click > > > thru 2 or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which > > > it promises to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet. > > > > ........ > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for > > me on iceweasel. > > > > Tom Ashley > > And what repo has that? > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Quoting myself from slightly earlier in this thread, and possibly still stuck in the ether: Available in Stretch or in Jessie-backports. Not much use for those of us running Wheezy, as Gene and I are. And it is in contrib not main. Still, things are obviously improving. Lisi