Running Suse 13.2, Firefox 45.0, can’t install Adobe flash player11.2. Get error message “Phonon’s vlc backend failed to start” I need some advice:’(
Can you be a bit more specific please?
Where do you get that error message, and how do you try to install Flash Player?
Flash Player does not use Phonon, so should have no need for Phonon’s vlc backend, and it would be even less needed just for installing Flash Player.
Also, phonon-backend-vlc is not even installed by default, normally phonon-backend-gstreamer is used in openSUSE.
To get rid of this error message, try to install it (from Packman, which also has flash-player…), or (probably better) switch to gstreamer in KDE’s multimedia settings.
phonon-backend-vlc from OSS is incomparable with vlc 2.2 you need to get it from packman
what’s your repo list
zypper lr -d
linux-bolh:/home/matt # zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
—±-----------------------------------±-----------------------------±--------±----------±--------±---------±-------±-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | AMD/ATI-FGLRX | AMD/ATI-FGLRX | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/openSUSE_13.2/ |
2 | adobe-flash-plugin | adobe-flash-plugin | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ |
3 | download.opensuse.org-13.2-non-oss | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/ |
4 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/ |
5 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (DEBUG) | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
6 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1 | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
7 | download.opensuse.org-oss_2 | Main Repository (Sources) | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/ |
8 | download.opensuse.org-update | Update Repository (DEBUG) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.2/ |
9 | download.opensuse.org-update_1 | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/ |
10 | dvd | dvd | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
11 | home_DarkPlayer_Pipelight | Pipelight (openSUSE_13.2) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/openSUSE_13.2/ |
12 | nVidia Graphics Drivers | nVidia Graphics Drivers | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.2/ |
13 | nvidia | nvidia | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1 |
14 | openSUSE-13.2-0 | openSUSE-13.2-0 | Yes | ( p) Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_SH-216DB_S10Q68EF4006D3 |
15 | packman | packman | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
16 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/ |
linux-bolh:/home/matt #
You added the Packman, libdvdcss, and nvidia repos for Leap 42.1, no wonder that you are having problems…
Remove them:
sudo zypper rr 10 13 15
You can remove the Adobe repo too, flash-player is available in Packman anyway.
sudo zypper rr 2
Then add libdvdcss and Packman for 13.2:
sudo zypper ar -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_13.2/ packman
sudo zypper ar -f http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_13.2 dvd
Do a full switch to them, and everything should work:
sudo zypper dup --from packman --from dvd
To install flash-player, run:
sudo zypper in flash-player
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