voodoo47 on 10/8/2017 at 10:00
ok, not going to need that. so I've tried the base Debian install plus
apt install xfce4 and
apt-get install chromium and we have a fully working system, youtube included - barely. 150MB free left - lets hope the os will be smart enough to use ram for caching stuff as much as possible.
I'll try to install LXDE intead of Xfce on another machine, maybe it will be smaller in the end. //nope, it does fit, but takes more space. so right now, it seems like Xfce+Iceweasel+flash would be the way to go, but I'll need to figure out how to get flash loaded.
//no luck with flash installation, despite (
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList) modifying source.list as root and updating, I still get the "flashplugin-nonfree has no installation candidate" message. no idea whether this is a flash missing problem actually, as youtube videos do play, but with pretty much zero performance (they are fine under chromium, and under firefox in a live xubuntu cd).
Zerker on 10/8/2017 at 21:03
Youtube and most videos should be doing HTML5 video playback nowadays, but I guess that can sometimes end up with software decoding on some Linux installs, especially on Firefox.
If you actually want flash, even Ubuntu just has a package called 'flashplugin-installer', which downloads it from Adobe. You can skip the middleman and just go here:
(
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/)
The APT link may or may not work; if not, you'll need the NPAPI .tar.gz file.
Or manually download the Ubuntu .deb file:
(
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/flashplugin-installer)
I'll also suggest installing
gdebi if you don't have it already; it makes things easier to install downloaded .deb files from a graphical interface.
To recover some space, you should probably clean up your apt download cache: 'sudo apt clean'.
Also, I haven't personally tried it, but the package 'localepurge' can be used to remove locales that are not your own. I'd suggest doing a bit of reading before using it, however.
voodoo47 on 11/8/2017 at 06:21
I'll check in a couple of days - though I have a hunch that after resolving all the dependencies and other issues, I'll be pretty much where I am with chromium.
one way or another, thanks.
//allright, so it looks like (
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=134283) chromium is the way to go after all (cpu load is around 90% when playing a 480p youtube video, just barely enough), and after running
apt-get clean, there is about 350MB of space left, and that should be enough for the intended use - set chromium to purge local temp files upon exit, and the system should be good to go.