To play some old flash animations I need a flash player for ubuntu 20.04. I was used to use Gnash, but this is no longer shipped with ubuntu. So I tried to compile it by myself, i.e. cloned the git repository, did ./autogen.sh
, ./configure
and tried to install all missing libraries. That worked except for:
ERROR: GST media handling requested but gstreamer-0.10+ not found
Install it from http://www.gstreamer.net
or .deb users: apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev
or .rpm users: yum install gstreamer-devel
or yast users: yast install gstreamer010-devel
ERROR: Base plugins are required for gstreamer media!
Install gstreamer-plugins-base from http://www.gstreamer.net
or .deb users: apt-get install
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
or .rpm users: yum install gstreamer-plugins-base-devel
ERROR: No xulrunner development package is installed!
Install it from
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner
or .deb users: apt-get install xulrunner-dev
or maybe : apt-get install npapi-sdk-dev
or maybe : apt-get install firefox-dev
or .rpm users: yum install xulrunner-devel
or specify --disable-npapi
For the last one I didn't find a xulrunner-dev
or an npapi-dev
package in the ubuntu repositories, but installed firefox-dev
. This didn't work, so I used --disable-npapi
.
For the gstreamer
plugins I installed the version 1.0 instead. But if I do make
I get the following error message:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash'
Making all in desktop
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/desktop'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/desktop'
Making all in libdevice
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libdevice'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libdevice'
Making all in libbase
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libbase'
sed -e 's|@DEFAULT_FLASH_PLATFORM_ID[@]|LNX|g' -e 's|@DEFAULT_FLASH_MAJOR_VERSION[@]|10|g' -e 's|@DEFAULT_FLASH_MINOR_VERSION[@]|1|g' -e 's|@DEFAULT_FLASH_REV_NUMBER[@]|999|g' -e 's|@DEFAULT_STREAMS_TIMEOUT[@]|60|g' -e 's|@DEFAULT_SOL_SAFEDIR[@]|~/.gnash/SharedObjects|g' './gnashrc.in' >gnashrc
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libbase'
Making all in libmedia
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libmedia'
CXX libgnashmedia_la-AudioDecoderGst.lo
In file included from gst/AudioDecoderGst.cpp:20:
gst/AudioDecoderGst.h:27:10: fatal error: gst/gst.h: No such file or directory
27 | #include <gst/gst.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1126: libgnashmedia_la-AudioDecoderGst.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash/libmedia'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1163: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/myuser/build/gnash'
make: *** [Makefile:1071: all] Error 2
So how can I make gnash
work on ubuntu 20.04.?