In the grand tradition of eating your own dog food, I've started using the live CD that my uncle is preparing for my grandparents. The first thing I noticed was that the flash plugin was missing. First I tried enabling "multiverse" and installing it into my live CD image using apt-get. It wanted to grab an old version 7 flash player, so I aborted and tried enabling "edgy-backports" and installing again. That time, it failed with some kind of md5sum mismatch error.

So I decided to try converting the rpm using alien. I don't run Ubuntu, and "alien" doesn't seem to be in Fedora (that would be too easy), so I did the rpm to deb conversion inside the live CD inside vmware:

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

sudo alien -k flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

I then added the equivalent of these next steps to my live CD customization remastering script:

dpkg -i flash-plugin_9.0.48.0-release-1_i386.deb

cp flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

I have no idea why flashplayer.xpt is needed here -- it doesn't seem to be needed in fedora.

 

One of the failed apt-get installation attempts suggested that I also install

iceweasel konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs

The konqueror package isn't going to be useful on the live CD, but one or more of the font packages might be useful. We'll see.