Bug#639798: Does not load flashplugin-nonfree plug-in

[Matt Kraai]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 30 août 2011 à 04:20 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit : 
> > I have flashplugin-nonfree installed.  When I use Epiphany to visit a
> > page that embeds a Flash object, the Flash object isn't shown.  For
> > example, visiting http://youtube.com/ yields a message that says
> > 
> >  You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. 
> >  Download it from Adobe.
> > 
> > If I visit this page using Iceweasel, the video loads successfully.
> 
> Flash is incompatible with GTK+ 3, so this is expected.
> 
> You can use nspluginwrapper to work around this.

Thanks for the information.

I was able to do so by hacking /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree to
download the i386 plug-in, running it to do so, and then running

 nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

-- 
Matt Kraai
https://ftbfs.org/kraai