I just recently did a netinst of 64 bit debian lenny and want to keep a lean system. I did aptitude install flash mozilla plugin and got all the ia32 stuff for it. This is not what I wanted.

I thought there is a native 64bit version of adobe flash plugin? If so, how do I install it and how do I remove all the ia32 flash stuff?

Thnx.

There is no 64-bit version of Adobe Flashplayer.

Erm... http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html. OK, it's alpha, but it exists.

You'll have to install it manually if it isn't in your distro's repository. Plenty of howto's on the web for that.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Package flashplugin-nonfree
sid (unstable) (web): Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin [contrib]
1:2.4: amd64 i386

Hhhhmmmm, I was remembering a 64-bit Java plugin. Now that you point out the link, my memory becomes clearer....I think.

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree using non-free contrb unstable repo or flashplayer-mozilla using debian-multimedia.org will install the Flash 10 plugin .


There is 64 bit Java as well.

icedtea-gcjwebplugin or icedtea6-plugin
web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and IcedTea to execute Java applets
amd64 armel i386 ia64 powerpc sparc

Craigevil suggestions worked for both java & flash, 64 bit version. I had to change my non-free source from lenny to sid.

If I want to leave non-free to sid using lenny, would it hurt anything?

Thnx.

Might be safer to pin the apps you installed from sid. or just run sid

http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning

I guess I can try switching to Sid. When I did it with 32bit debian, all I got was a black screen for some reason. I never did figure it out .

Thnx.

Not on my boxes .Ahhh, I'm not going completely crazy.

Hi,

Just wanted to say a big thankyou for this useful post/solution, and relate my experiences for anyone else who has the same problem.

All over the net there's people saying to just do
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
to install the flash plugin for iceweasel/firefox/whatever, but whenever I tried that I got the error: "Package flashplugin-nonfree has no installation candidate". I eventually tracked this down to the fact that I'm trying to install this on an amd64 installation. As a result of the error, I couldn't even install 32 bit flash (via apt anyway) and use the nspluginwrapper that so many people suggest out there. I hope that more people find this post and can follow the same simple steps I did:

# vim /etc/apt/sources.list

changed
to
# apt-get update
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Tested that quickly and it works perfectly for flash toons, games and youtube videos.

I didn't really get the apt-pinning stuff from that guide (sorry, but I'm still pretty new to linux), so just ran
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
(again) and changed those two lines back to what they were before. I guess it'd be nice to be able to say "use the Sid repo for just the flashplugin-nonfree package, and use stable (or whatever) for everything else." The apt-pinning stuff looked like id could do that, but as I say, I didn't quite get the specifics of how to achieve this.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough for my first ever post on this forum, but hopefully all those search-engine-friendly relevant words will help people find this :-).
Once again, thanks for the tip, and long may Linux grow.