Remove gnash
How can I remove gnash? When I try to, it wants to remove a whole lot of other files that shouldn't be removed.
I really wish that it wasn't included by default.
Trisquel is not exactly appealing to people new to GNU/Linux, those that use it are more than capable of at least firing up synaptic and installing either gnash or swfdec on their own.
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Are you in 3.5 or 4.0?
When I try to remove gnash in synaptic, the only other package it wants to remove is the Mozilla plugin, and nothing else...
Using the 4.0 beta.
As you can see here it wants to remove a whole bunch of stuff that looks like it's crucial.
sudo apt-get remove gnash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libecryptfs0 libparted0 ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup python-pyicu keyutils
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash trisquel-desktop-common-recommended
trisquel-gnome-base-recommended trisquel-recommended
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 627kB disk space will be freed.
> Trisquel is not exactly appealing to people new to GNU/Linux, those that use it are more than capable of at least firing up synaptic and installing either gnash or swfdec on their own.
I don't know about that. New users may not be familiar with Synaptic, and probably wouldn't know to look for gnash and swfdec.
I tend to agree with Daemonax. Perhaps a flash player is included by default to give a better "out of the box" experience, and Gnash is probably the better choice since development on Swfdec has stopped. However, I have the feeling most Trisquel users would know how to install either package using Synaptic. Trisquel users likely install their own system and should have some knowledge of the package manager. Searching for "flash" in Synaptic pulls up both Gnash and Swfdec.
Should the user have someone install Trisquel for them, they can ask the person installing the system, check the section in the Documentation section of the website which explains using either Gnash or Swfdec as alternatives to Adobe's flash player, or ask in the forum.
Personal note: I would hope that anyone installing an OS for someone else would spend some time going through the basics, which in GNU/Linux definitely includes the package manager.
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Try uninstalling only the Mozilla plugin, and then installing the swfdec packages.
Swfdec, having been abandoned, is going to become quite obsolete in the near future.
You can't do that without it trying to remove all that stuff.
daemonax@studypad:~$ sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
[sudo] password for daemonax:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libecryptfs0 libparted0 ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup python-pyicu keyutils
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
mozilla-plugin-gnash trisquel-desktop-common-recommended
trisquel-gnome-base-recommended trisquel-recommended
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 250kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
This is a big pain, because even if Gnash is being actively developed it is still not very good, and doesn't work with many of the websites that I used for watching videos on like http://www.youku.com which worked fine with swfdec.
I think it would be best if neither are included by default, or at least are not tied up with the system in such a crucial fashion.
Okay, it does seem to be working with youku.com now for some weird reason.
Regardless I think it would be better if it weren't tied up with the system in the way that it currently is.
Are those packages really important? It looks to me like they're just
metapackages.
On 05/06/10 13:44, name at domain wrote:
> You can't do that without it trying to remove all that stuff.
>
> daemonax@studypad:~$ sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
> [sudo] password for daemonax:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> libecryptfs0 libparted0 ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup python-pyicu keyutils
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED
> mozilla-plugin-gnash trisquel-desktop-common-recommended
> trisquel-gnome-base-recommended trisquel-recommended
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 250kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
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> This is a big pain, because even if Gnash is being actively developed it
> is still not very good, and doesn't work with many of the websites that
> I used for watching videos on like http://www.youku.com which worked
> fine with swfdec.
>
> I think it would be best if neither are included by default, or at least
> are not tied up with the system in such a crucial fashion.
>
>
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El 04/06/10 22:38, name at domain escribió:
> Try uninstalling only the Mozilla plugin, and then installing the
> swfdec packages.
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> Swfdec, having been abandoned, is going to become quite obsolete in
> the near future.
>
¿why you say that Swfdec was abandoned?
¿Where can i found this information?
Thanks.
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