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#101 Post by Sylvander »

hanzf wrote:When I start getflash it says:
"unable to contact the server, please check your internet conection"
I got that when my default web-browser [Firefox] was not up-to-date.
When I updated Firefox, and then ran getflash, it worked OK.
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#102 Post by bigpup »

When I start getflash it says:
"unable to contact the server, please check your internet conection"
Make sure you are using the latest version of Getflash.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 869#835869
Adobe Flash Player keeps changing it's server location and Getflash has to be updated.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#103 Post by hanzf »

bigpup wrote: Make sure you are using the latest version of Getflash.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 869#835869
Adobe Flash Player keeps changing it's server location and Getflash has to be updated.
Thank you bigpup, now it works
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#104 Post by bones01 »

bigpup wrote:
When I start getflash it says:
"unable to contact the server, please check your internet conection"
Make sure you are using the latest version of Getflash.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 869#835869
Adobe Flash Player keeps changing it's server location and Getflash has to be updated.
Thanks for that Bigpup. Took me a while to find this.
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#105 Post by bones01 »

I have installed the latest version of GetFlash, and now have version 11.2.202.540 which I believe is the up-to-date version for Linux and Firefox. I have also updated Firefox.
But when I wanted to watch some highlights from Australia and Scotland in the Rugby World Cup, I got a message telling me I need to upgrade my flash player to watch this video. :cry:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a34q ... land_sport

Any ideas?

This is with Precise (I'm pretty sure it is)

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#106 Post by zakjoh »

bigpup wrote:Adobe Flash Player keeps changing it's server location and Getflash has to be updated.
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashpla ... tion3.html

Linux (64-bit)
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/f ... _64.tar.gz

Linux (32-bit)
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/f ... 386.tar.gz

I thought the latest linux version was always at the above links ??
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#107 Post by ASRI éducation »

zakjoh wrote:I thought the latest linux version was always at the above links ??
The latest version of getflash (1.5.6) uses different URLs.

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CHECKURL_32='://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=Flash_Player_11.2_for_other_Linux_(.tar.gz)_32-bit&standalone=1'
CHECKURL_64='://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=Flash_Player_11.2_for_other_Linux_(.tar.gz)_64-bit&standalone=1'
These URLs seem functional.
hanzf wrote:
bigpup wrote: Make sure you are using the latest version of Getflash.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 869#835869
Thank you bigpup, now it works
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#108 Post by Mike Walsh »

Thanks for 1.5-6, shinobar. Working nicely in Slacko 5.7.0.

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#109 Post by ASRI éducation »

getflash-1.5-7

To automatically update the flash player plugin at the startup of the session, Geoffrey offers a convenient and effective utility => Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=100523

bigpup gave me the idea to add this feature to the getflash utility => http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 989#868989

I also made other improvements/changes.

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#151028 v1.5-7 ASRI: add function autoupdate at startup, improve messages (SEE_*) of main GUI, stop to propose flashplayer9, improve test of download size, improve support of x64 arch, add options for boot (getflash -a -h), add prefs file, and other small changes...
To facilitate collaborative work, the files have been added to Woof-CE => https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... s/getflash

Thank you in advance for your tests and proposals.

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#110 Post by ASRI éducation »

I need help to improve the file created in /root/.packages.
The size of the installed package is wrong.

Line 434: variable $LENGTH K

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NEWENTRY="flashplayer-$NEWVERSION-$ARCHSEE|flashplayer|$NEWVERSION-$ARCHSEE||Internet|$LENGTH K||flashplayer-$NEWVERSION-$ARCHSEE.pet||Preferences for Adobe Flash Player||||"
Line 240:

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LENGTH=$(curl -s -k -I "$DOWNLOADURL" | grep -i 'Content-Length:' | cut -s -f2 -d':'| tr -dc '0-9') || LENGTH=0
Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
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#111 Post by zakjoh »

Could you sprinkle your magic and do the same for openSSL ? :)
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#112 Post by boxR »

ASRI éducation wrote:Line 240:

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LENGTH=$(curl -s -k -I "$DOWNLOADURL" | grep -i 'Content-Length:' | cut -s -f2 -d':'| tr -dc '0-9') || LENGTH=0
Can you try :

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curl -s -k -I "$DOWNLOADURL"
is there a 'Content-Length' line ?
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#113 Post by boxR »

Flashplayer 11.2.202.616 (PET) 32-bits package
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#114 Post by BVV »

URL pattern to download Adobe Flash Player has been changed. For proper operation GetFlash, you need to replace the file /usr/sbin/getflash-conf on below.
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Another way to update the download URLs in getflash-conf

#115 Post by rerwin »

Thanks, BVV, for posting your updated version of getflash-conf.

I also worked up a patch .pet that edits an existing getflash-conf in place. It should work for both getflash versions 1.5-6 and 1.5-7, although I have tested only with 1.5-6.

The updated lines are:

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CHECKURL_32='://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_11.2_for_other_Linux_32-bit_(.tar.gz)_-_NPAPI&standalone=1'
CHECKURL_64='://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_11.2_for_other_Linux_64-bit_(.tar.gz)_-_NPAPI&standalone=1'
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#116 Post by Mike Walsh »

Richard, I don't know if this has any bearing on the problem with Get-Flash?

(Read on from this post...)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 789#912789

Apparently Adobe's site is currently not detecting Puppy's browser user-agent strings correctly. Fortunately, the fix was an extremely simple one, thanks to sfs's determined 'digging around'.


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#117 Post by Pete »

At the risk of sounding facetious, which is not the intention, what is flash still used/needed for?
I'm running Slacko 6.3.0 and I have never bothered with flash and not missing much since youtube started supporting html 5.
Firefox still shows "a plug-in is required to view this content" for about a second or two then it disappears and it plays normally.
So, what am I missing that I need flash for these days?
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#118 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

Pete wrote:At the risk of sounding facetious, which is not the intention, what is flash still used/needed for?
I'm running Slacko 6.3.0 and I have never bothered with flash and not missing much since youtube started supporting html 5.
Firefox still shows "a plug-in is required to view this content" for about a second or two then it disappears and it plays normally.
So, what am I missing that I need flash for these days?
I sometimes play Facebook Games (like Guitar Flash multi-player). Some sites like Soundcloud and Di.fm still need it for some silly reason (probably so you'll see their Flash ads). I think the 'Youtube video editing enhancements' thing use Flash. Like you, I usually keep Flash disabled or in an sfs which isn't loaded, and if we can get by without it for everything, more power to us. :)
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#119 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hi, Pete.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if all you view in your browser is YouTube, then I don't suppose you would need Flash..! :lol:

Personally, I can't remember the last time I even bothered with YouTube. It's not exactly top of my list of priorities! But there are, as Sailor pointed out, an awful lot of sites out there for which Flash is still a 'must-have' item.

Believe me, I hate the Flash plug-in as much as anybody.....but I have a nasty feeling the horrid thing will be with us for quite some time to come. I don't particularly want it myself; but if I have to have it, at least I'll make sure I'm running the most up-to-date version. And I've had it on 'click-to-play' for years...

A Flash SFS sounds like a good idea. I might run one of those up myself...


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#120 Post by Pete »

Mike Walsh wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way, but if all you view in your browser is YouTube, then I don't suppose you would need Flash..! :lol:
No offense taken at all.
I'm genuinely curious as to what other features flash is still used for.
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