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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.?


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The compilation of Gnash on modern systems like 20.04 LTS is not possible because of changed APIs.


But you can use schroot container with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Gnash installed inside it as written below:


sudo apt-get install schroot debootstrap -y

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/schroot/chroot.d/bionic.conf
[bionic]
description=Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
directory=/srv/chroot/bionic
root-users=$USER
type=directory
users=$USER
EOF

sudo mkdir -p /srv/chroot/bionic
sudo debootstrap bionic /srv/chroot/bionic

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /srv/chroot/bionic/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
EOF

schroot -c bionic -u root apt-get update
schroot -c bionic -u root apt-get install gnash

To run it use command below:


schroot -c bionic -u $USER env DISPLAY=:0.0 gnash path/to/file.swf

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