This morning I did a “zypper up” and there were some 900 packages upgraded or installed, including some downgraded. Just a few minutes ago, I saw on the forum that some members “zypper dupped” to effect official 42.1 release.
I then did the same thing. The terminal shows both flash-player and flash-player-kde4 are removed.
They have remove flash from Leap and Tumbleweed. Apparently this is due to use restrictions imposed by Adobe.
There’s a discussion on the factory mailing list.
My own plans for dealing with this:
I’ll keep 32.1 around for a while, as a fall back option.
I’m installing “chromium”. When the packman repo is up, I’ll see if chromium-pepper-flash is still available. And there’s also a “fresh-player” or similar name that makes this available to firefox.
If the worst comes to the worst, I’ll have to use Windows for the very few sites where I need flash.
packman for leap isn’t out yet
I’ve been using the sle12 repo as the closest compatible distro http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/SLE_12/
but I’d still wait a few days for leap’s repo
if you need multimedia try sle’s packages they do seam to run (tried xine and vlc)
zypper ar -f http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/SLE_12/ packman-sle12
then you’d need to dup to that repo
note there is a missing multimedia package a cd library libcdio14 but you can ignore that warning for the time being
As mentioned in the Factory mailing list, you can install freshlpayerplugin to play Flash in Firefox. I can confirm this works even without the Packman repo.
I was trying this the other day instead of the 42.1 packman repo that was out few weeks ago, in hopes to avoid the double window interface issue with VLC player and it didn’t seem to work (remove double window interface issue) either. Got errors trying to install VLC player and VLC Codecs as well, about something missing or broken… So I avoided that route.
When I open the movie in VLC, it opens TWO windows not just one window. The main interface window with volume, counter/timer, top menu, etc that normally has movie playing in, and then another window that has movie playing in it. The interface option is selected for video to play in main interface window too (“Integrate video into interface”). So I have two windows independent, can both be maximized or minimized… If I want to pause movie, I have to maximize left window pane with controls to pause it / video in the right window. Unless I have the video window maximized and have controls at bottom panel.
Also noticed the flash issues, but here it was the extension “NoScript”, and choosing “Allow all from this page” left videos play in pern sites… Lol. But I did “zypper in flash-player” or whatever, apparently started installing Chromium and few other things… I gotta have ability to use flash, for various sites; facebook, pern sites, etc…
When I open the movie in VLC, it opens TWO windows not just one window. The main interface window with volume, counter/timer, top menu, etc that normally has movie playing in, and then another window that has movie playing in it.
Good grief I’ve just seen the two window effect with smplayer.
about the extra window when playing video’s
I have the dual window effect with vlc I thought it was a config bug but seeing how the vlc I’m using is for sle12 not opensuse leap I’m thinking I’ll wait for the proper release before doing anything, yeap the repodata was added so packman esentials should be working (I’ll test tomorrow)
failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so’: File exists
yeah, i tried deleting the vlc config file too, and didn’t change it. i then tried “custom skin” and it worked playing the video in main interface, but then the buttons were half hidden behind taskbar below… Lol. I guess I’ll just wait 4 or 5 days until Leap is released and wait on official packman and other repos as well, see if there’s any difference.
I found that Packman repo is now available (see link below), so I just added it to my list of repos and installed chromium-pepper-flash for Chromium browser.
All of packman not just essentials but multimedia and games are out for Leap
**http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
**only pepper flash no regular flash for the time being.
and the dual vlc window is still there, I’m thinking it’s not a bug but a temporary fix for the vlc qt5 bug
