[Nix-dev] flashplayer updated to 11.2.202.251

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi Ellis,

I updated the flashplayer:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/6faa35a89be1aec1de8e4393a5c9ff0ed7995f93
 .

Cheers,
Rob


On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ellis Whitehead
<ellis.whitehead at gmail.com>wrote:

> I also tried :
> $ cd ~
> $ nix-env -f nixpkgs -i flashplayer
>
> (I had to edit the `url` variables in default.nix too, since the file
> naming scheme changed slightly)
>
> The tar.gz file is then correctly downloaded, but then produces an error
> that the build of flashplayer-11.2.202.251.drv failed.
>
> As before, any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Ellis Whitehead <ellis.whitehead at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> The 'flashplayer' package can't be installed anymore, because
>> 11.2.202.238 has been removed from the macromedia website.  I had hoped to
>> fix this myself and send a patch, but it looks like I won't get that far
>> today.
>>
>> The fix is presumably editing flashplayer-11/default.nix as follows on
>> lines 46 and 57:
>> - version = "11.2.202.238";
>> + version = "11.2.202.251";
>>
>> which will then download the following url:
>>
>> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.251/install_flash_player_11_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
>>
>> I tried the following:
>> $ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
>> $ cd
>> nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer-11
>> $ vim default.nix
>> [edited as described above]
>> $ nix-build -A flashplayer-11
>>
>> The last command results in an error "cannot auto-call a function that
>> has an argument without a defualt value ('stdenv')"
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>
>
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Rob Vermaas

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