So today I loaded Debian Etch 64 on my Intel Core 2 Duo machine. Everything is fine with the exception that Macromedia Flash still does not work on Firefox 64. I would have hoped something so simple would have been resolved over one year ago but it still appears to be an issue.

I downloaded the self containined Firefox 2 download from Mozilla.org and when I try and launch the application, I get an error that reads:

Does anyone know what I am missing or what package I need to APT-GET for this to work? I am unable to find anything in my repo relating to the package above unless I am totally missing it.

Please help!

I wouldn't say its that simple. Probably a lot don't care about flash. It's mostly used for ads or for games&gfx.
Put packages.debian.org in your bookmarks
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...able&arch=i386
Or use a tool called apt-file to search into packages, even the not installed.

So I went to that URL and I see the package called "libdevel/libgtk2.0-dev" which is a hyperlink to here. I scroll down to the table mid page and select the AMD64 (unofficial port) link. Now here is I guess a mirror for the .deb file I am looking for and every link is a dead/broken link. I can't get NA, Europe, or Asia's mirros to work.

I then used APT-GET to install a package called "libgtk2.0-dev" and it found it no problem but still think I am missing something from that .deb file I can't download.

Am I reading between the lines correctly here that you installed the Sarge AMD64 version? That would be major mistake #1. 2nd mistake ... Using Firefox instead of IceWeasel.

Carlwill, with this page, you do the search _only_ ( there are two possibility: search a package, search a file in a package)
When you get the package name, you install it with whatever you want!
aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev

And it's probably wiser to download iceweasel.

Why do you say that?

Debian does not contain 'Firefox' anymore....don't you read any linux news?

You didn't clear up what rickh asked above - did you install the amd64 version of Debian? I wouldn't think that would work with a core duo, as it isn't an AMD processor. I think for intel 64 bit, you want the ia64 package. Or you could just install the regular i386 packages, and not have a problem with needed 32 bit plugins.

This is the link I followed to get a 32 bit chroot for firefox on my 64 bit desktop, running unstable - http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view....html#id292205

It was written for amd64, but I don't think there should be any major difference doing it for ia64, it is the same processes on a different architecture. Please let us know what architecture you installed under. If you did somehow get amd64 installed on an intel chip, I would image that is or will become the source of many problems.

Peace,
JimBass

Obvioulsy Debian does not contain it as anyone who does any install can see this. My question was to why would you suggest not using Firefox. Debian's choice to not use is political which I don't think concerns me.

I was told that AMD64 is for both AMD64 and Intel EM64T. Yes, I installed the AMD64 iso on my Intel Core 2 Duo. Is this right or wrong? It's running now fine with no problems and seems pretty stable.

Read here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...310&highlight=

The core2 processor does use the AMD64 (EMT64) OS, and he clearly says he installed Etch. I missed that at first. OTOH, a person antagonistic, or even ambivalent, about Debian's political positions should probably use another distro, maybe Ubuntu, until the light dawns.

OK - so I gave up Firefox 2.0.1 on AMD64 Etch. I have IceWeasel back on but it's the 64 bit version. If I remove this from the system again, how do I know if I am getting a i386 version of Iceweasel so Flash is compatable?

The recommended solution is to use the the 32-bit chroot as described in the JimBass link above. I don't need Flash that bad myself. Gnash and the mozilla-plugin-gnash packages (available in Sid) work very well for Flash video up to version 7.

OK - I will give that a shot and see what happens. I need version 9 so looks like that 2nd suggestion (Gnash) wont work.

Because it's always better to use a package made for your distro than something generic (its the same for every package management). The maintainer is doing something, he checks for the integration in Debian,..
It goes for every software, not only firefox (forget about this legal problems).
Prefer the package