Robolinux Debian - Adobe Flash not running automatically
 

just recently I have found (while using Robolinux) that Adobe flash player doesn't automatically load & play content- one gets a popup box to 'activate' which then allows the content to be played but for every new web-page one loads with Flash player content- it still won't play automatically. When one goes to the Adobe flash player site, there is a note that says "Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux." Here's the link (& notice there is a choice of 4 versions to download from the drop-down box near the bottom) http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ is there a way around this, or the most appropriate version to try?

Do you have, from the deb-multimedia.org repo (not a debian repo), flashplayer-mozilla installed. Will get you the same thing and supply the upgrades in your normal update/upgrade cycles.
That is for sid obviously. Edit it to fit your system.

Under sid that currently provides;
3:11.2.202.425-dmo2

Adobe is offering
11.2.202.425

Difference is that the one from the repo is for Debian. Same flash version.

If you do get a popup, it is because your browser (iw or ff) blocks any version of flash below 11.2.202.425. This is because of a flaw found up to version 11.2.202.424.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109795

@ jim p so how do I revert back to the previous version? - is that what I need to do?

@ widget - that is all a little over my head... !

Your version is already older than the problem. You need the newer one.

What exactly do you need to know to enable the multimedia repo?

If you would post the entire output of;
it would help.

paul@debianrobolinux:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130902-03:47]/ wheezy main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130902-03:47]/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

OK. That looks a bit strange. Wheezy should have more than that in it by default. And you must be being prompted for the CD every time you try to do anything.

Did you set up a root password when you installed?

Did you enable the use of sudo in any other way?

What is your defualt text editor? I assume that it would be gedit, looks like they use the Gnome by default but offer Xfce and Lmde.

What is the output of;
If that turns up anything we need to know this as we do not want to mess with your system by adding repos that may not, inspite of being compatible with Debian, be compatible with packages from any custom repos maintained by your distro.

that's exactly what I am concerned about, because essentially everything else on the system is working really well, I don't want to cause subsequent issue to fix this relatively small problem.

Thank you for your help btw.

Yes I did set up a root password when I installed. Gnome is used as text editor.

output-
paul@debianrobolinux:~$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
debian-multimedia.list google-chrome.list virtualbox.list
debian-multimedia.list.save google-chrome.list.save virtualbox.list.save
paul@debianrobolinux:~$

That looks fine.

So, you are not using sudo?

You do have a root password?

Gedit is your text editor?

One thing for you to consider is that adding the same version of flash from the Adobe site will not be known to your package management system.

This is not a good thing.