Flash Player 24 didn't work on Debian 5 (Upd: VDPAU didn't work)

Question

Hello! I have an old PC: Pentium IV 2 Gb RAM and GeForce 9800GT.

Thus I'm using a deprecated Linux: Debian 5. It's fast. I have been upgrade the kernel from 2.6.27 to 3.16 using DEB-SRC from Debian 8 (for my Wi-Fi), Glibc from 2.7 to 2.15 using DEB-SRC from Ubuntu 12.04 (for Steam), and Firefox from 3.0 to 45.6esr (by hand).

Previous version of Flash Player (11.2.202.644) was installed by extracting the ".so" file into ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/plugins. It works fine. Also there is a working VDPAU with a config file plus "YouTube Flash-HTML5" switching plugin.

The latest Flash Player build (24.x) didn't work on my Linux. Firefox didn't show it in a plugins list. I have tried to run "ldd" and "strings" commands on the ".so" file. It didn't shows any error. There are logs: Flash Player 24 error - Pastebin.com

Upd: I've found the solution. I have been upgrade my GTK to 2.18, logs: http://pastebin.com/suCSRrES But now I have crash if VDPAU is enabled. I've tried to update a page.

Can you make lower the GTK requirement version? I think CentOS 5 users will say "thank you"!

Please check the VDPAU, does it work at all? One month ago I've checked a beta (23.x) on a modern OS, VDPAU wasn't work.

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

Sorry. Given the fragmentation between and long tail of Linux versions in use, we're never going to be able to support everything. We focus our efforts on current versions of the most-used distributions, with the philosophy of "doing the most good for the most people" with the finite resources we have to apply to the Linux release.

As an alternative low-effort workaround, if your system meets the minimum system requirements for Google Chrome, you might have some luck using the built-in Flash Player there.

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