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UPDATE: Commenters report this as the solution:
Flash >
\sudo \apt-get install libcurl3:i386
The remainder of this page may also help. I have not tested this and have since abandoned this project.
Firstly, why in the motherfucking hell can I view a swf using my browser online but not use my browser offline to view an offline swf? This is madness.
I can download something, according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FlashPlayerStandalone
I visit was www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html and note that although the top of this page claims there is, there is no 64bit projector.
2015-06-05 – flashplayer_11_sa.i386 ∞
Tested on Lubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS), updated recently.
Attempting to run it gave a complaint. Every time it complained, I did something like so:
\dpkg -S libXcursor.so.1
It would give me output like so:
libxcursor1:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1.0.2 libxcursor1:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
One of these lines will be appropriate. Take it, and look at the left. Replace amd64 with i386 and install that. Like so:
\sudo \apt-get install libxcursor1:i386
The complete list of stuff I had to install was:
\sudo \apt-get install \ libglib2.0-0:i386 \ libxt6:i386 \ libxcursor1:i386 \ libnss3:i386 \ libgtk2.0-0:i386 \ ` # `
However, this doesn’t work. I can launch it, but when I attempt to open a swf I get I get:
(flashplayer:3371): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance with invalid (NULL) class pointer
(flashplayer:3371): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
UPDATE: Commenters report this as the solution:
\sudo \apt-get install libcurl3:i386
First, an advertisement to Windows 10 got baked into Windows 8.1, probably via its update service. Sigh.
It appeared as a tray icon.
The resulting window, which doesn’t tell me nearly enough, has “Learn more on windows.com” at its top-right.
That leads to
www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade?ocid=win10_auxapp_LearnMore_win10
.. which does not exist. [ 1 ] what I saw · what I should have seen
Footnotes
I wanted to make standard BlogText images thumbnails appear in a nice row. While possible, I haven’t been able to figure out how to get captioned images to work the same way.
I could manually shape all of this by using raw HTML in my posts and wrapping things in span/div/whatever tags, but I wanted to keep wiki-able stuff.
I failed.
TODO – make a proper page
During my recent Linux distributions experimentation, I noticed a few times that Windows 8.1 would no longer “see” a particular USB stick I was using. It would appear within the device list, would test correctly but would not appear in the left-hand pane in explorer.
I learned that this was because one or more of the distributions I was testing would, for unfathomable reasons, prep the USB stick strangely.
Why Windows wouldn’t just offer to format the stick is unknown to me.
I found several showstopper issues with the script that Slackel uses to copy its ISO data to a USB stick.
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Linux distributions + Slackware and Salix >
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackel
slackel.gr
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2016-11-04 – Although this has isohybrid and would be trivial to get on a USB stick, with such a tiny community I don’t think I want to get into this.
Linux distributions + Slackware >
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rip
https://web.archive.org/web/20150216104545/http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
A rescue distribution.
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As of 2016-04-18 – The website is dead, and the project is reported as dormant.
