On 2017-06-23 at 16:46, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: > >> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That >>> is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there >>> any help out there for this program. I even installed Chromium >>> with pepperflash and it won't work either. Any help would be >>> greatly appreciated. >>> >>> I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Maureen >> did you try firefox-esr? post what is exactly installed > > Yes I did try firefox-esr and it doesn't work. I have installed > flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 and pepperflashplugin-nonfree > 1.8.1+deb8u1
When did you run the flashplugin-nonfree install? As far as I can determine, that package has been in a nonworking state since January, to the point where it was left out of the stretch release. That's not because of any problem in the package internals, but because something changed *outside of* the package - in particular, on Adobe's Website - and something *else* outside of the package has not been updated to match. What that package does is see what Flash-for-Linux version is available on Adobe's Website, download a hash file for that same version from one Debian developer's personal Debian Webspace, download the Flash installer from Adobe's Website, then compare the installer's hash against the one from the hash file. This happens automatically at download, and can be triggered manually later by running 'update-flashplugin-nonfree --install'. The apparent purpose of all of this is to make sure that what the package downloads and runs isn't malicious code (due to e.g. domain hijacking). What happened in January is that Adobe released a new Flash version, and no one copied a matching hash file into place. Several new Flash versions have been released since then, with no more reaction, despite several bug reports on this subject (most or all of which have been merged into one in the bugtracker, so plainly the Debian developers know about the issue). Without the hash file, existing versions of this package will never be able to download the Flash installer, and so installing or gpgrading Flash will fail. If you download the Flash installer from Adobe yourself, and run it (as root, with any needed options) yourself, it should still work - but the flashplugin-nonfree package itself is currently useless, and that's why it wasn't included with the stretch release. I've been concerned about this exact failure state, in lesser form (unreasonable delay in getting access to security fixes), ever since I first noticed that the package was pulling an upstream-version-specific file from a place apparently controlled by only one single person... -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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