Another Adobe Flash Problem

The 'alien' command does that: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
It is in Trisquel's repositories.

However, read and reread the warning on the site of the command:
Despite the large version number, alien is still (and will probably always be) rather experimental software. It has been used by many people for many years, but there are still many bugs and limitations.

Alien should not be used to replace important system packages, like sysvinit, shared libraries, or other things that are essential for the functioning of your system. Many of these packages are set up differently by Debian and Red Hat, and packages from the different distributions cannot be used interchangably. In general, if you can't uninstall the package without breaking your system, don't try to replace it with an alien version.

> As I've said, contrary to many of the problems that I've read on the forum, my
> problem is more general than site-specific

Since Gnash or another alternative to flash, is just an alternative to a closed and discouraged format, it will be always hard to implement an up-to-date solution and the solutions probably will be always site-specific.

> I guess the first thing that I'll try would be just disactivating
> FlashVideoReplacer and let Gnash handle Adobe Flash files instead

I don't believe that FVR avoid you a correct behavoir from Gnash. AFAIK, it will always work with only videos and from very specific sites.

> I may have to consider to uninstall Web Browser and Midori and install
> IceCat instead :/

I'm using abrowser and icecat without problems. Also, it is not recomendable to remove pre-installed software (as abrowser) of the distro, apt can be confused and it's possible it want to uninstall almost every important package.

The operating system you use is GNU/Linux. Linux only is its kernel: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html

In this forum, nobody will help you to install proprietary software. Anyway, notice that installing the Adobe Flash plugin in Trisquel makes one (very ugly) piece of proprietary software on your system. Using Windows looks far worse...

> Well I guess in that case whenever I want to study on Busuu I'll have to
> revert back to Windows since these are not durable solutions for me.
> Then again, I'd heard that through Wine or Virtualbox I can run a
> Windows system on my Taranis. Can somebody inform me how that is
> possible as to having the OS on Linux and say running Google Chrome?

I'm sorry that some times free software solutions are not as good in quality as we'd like, it's really a shame. However, maybe we can use theese times for analysing which is the problem in the backgroud. Normally, as in this case, the problem is an undesirable technology which owner want to dominate the world(-wide-web), expecting everyone uses it software while they don't advice this fact.

However, free software comunity has the responsability of advicing this fact and discouraging the use of that kind of technologies. So, we cannot help you to go a step backward in your freedom offering you help for setting privative software (both Windows and Chrome are), instead of that, we'll help you to find the available alternatives and encouraging you to be activist, spreading the word of the bad things that flash carries.

But in the end, your elections will be always yours, our only mission is show you the doors, isn't angry you. :)

Have a good time