Morning, TwoPuppies.
Gosh. Thanks for the vote of appreciation! I had no idea the PepperFlash stuff was being quite
that well received.....
Just out of curiosity, are you still doing this by the
old method:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101275
.....or have you discovered the 'click-to-install' .pets I've made up?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 288#898288
TBH, the entire reason I made these up was all tied in with what you're discovering about Lucid. There are a
lot of people out there, who, like me, are still running perfectly functional, older 32-bit hardware. Which of necessity means that just sometimes, depending on the age of the hardware, it won't run the newest OSes (even with Puppy), so it's a case of using older versions.
Which often means an older 'C' library (the
glibc).
Which in turn means the newer versions of the popular browsers won't run (and Chromium-based browsers are a pain in the **** in this respect). So you have to use older versions of these.
I can't do anything about the way they're actually put together (coded, etc).....but I can try to do something with PepperFlash, at least (which, considering how large an attack vector 'Flash' has always been, does attempt to make things a wee bit more secure). And even with elderly browsers, a lot depends on your personal browsing habits; you keep away from the 'dodgy' sites, you're relatively safe even with an old browser.....
Re; OverDrive's method; yes, it's very useful.....because quite a number of sites seem to get their Flash info from the plug-in manager ( and
that gets
its info from the 'wrapper-script', of course). So if it's
not up-to-date, then you gotta do that yourself. And it's only a case of changing a few numbers with Geany, and remembering to hit the 'Save' button when you're done..! It probably takes longer to locate the script than it does to modify it.....
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I'm running Slacko64 630 myself. Not using Chromium, but I
am running the newest versions of Chrome & SlimJet. In both cases, I just d/l'ed from the appropriate sites, then modified the tail end of the wrapper-script by substituting the last few lines of that script from OscarTalk's final 32-bit version of Chrome in his repo (version 48 ). It works very well, because it fixes the 'Chrome cannot run as root' problem we tend to get with Puppy.....and
that, of course, is all tied in with the 'out-of-process' sand-boxing model that Chrome now employs.
BTW; nearly forgot. The current version of SlimJet is 10.0.5.0 (based on Chromium 50 or 51, I forget which). I tried Lucid with version 7.0.3.0 from a while back (which I think was based on 43? 45?), and again the problem is the 'C' library, I'm afraid. And you can't update
that with out re-compiling most of the components in Lucid itself; quite a major undertaking, I suspect. So about all you can do with it in Lucid is to use as new a version as possible, keep Pepper up-to-date ( or Linux Flash in the older ones; Geoffrey's auto-updater works brilliantly for this).....and watch your browsing habits.
I keep wondering whether it wouldn't be possible to set up a self-contained newer version of the glibc for use in older Pups, simply so they
can run a more up-to-date Chromium-based browser. It needs a few more items, but most of those can be pillaged from other Pup's libraries. 'Twill take some investigation, methinks.
Sorry I haven't got any better news for you than that....
Mike.