Flash player for Debian Etc 4.0r5 wich iceweasel
 

Would someone be kind enough to give me the definitive instructions for installing flash player on my Debian. I have already gone through instructions on this link

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-flash-696761/

nothing.

I then followed instructions on the official adobe site using

install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

dpkg --install install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
Selecting previously deselected package adobe-flashplugin.
(Reading database ... 72787 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking adobe-flashplugin (from install_flash_player_10_linux.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobe-flashplugin:
adobe-flashplugin depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.12.4-3.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libc6 (>= 2.4); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.2.4-4.1+etch1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5); however:
Version of libfreetype6 on system is 2.2.1-5+etch3.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.8.20-7.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libnss3-1d; however:
Package libnss3-1d is not installed.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.14.8-5.
dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
adobe-flashplugin
zaika:/home/siawash# dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
(Reading database ... 72799 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy1 (using install_flash_pl ayer_10_linux.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adobe-flashplugin ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobe-flashplugin:
adobe-flashplugin depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.12.4-3.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libc6 (>= 2.4); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.2.4-4.1+etch1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5); however:
Version of libfreetype6 on system is 2.2.1-5+etch3.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.8.20-7.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libnss3-1d; however:
Package libnss3-1d is not installed.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.14.8-5.
dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
adobe-flashplugin

I have also tried to point iceweasel to libflashplayer.so. nothing

Then i tried installing tar.gz file install_flash_player_10_linux

Then follow the instructions according to Adobe

zaika:/home/siawash/flash_player_10_solaris_r0_d584_x86# cd install_flash_player_10_linux
bash: cd: install_flash_player_10_linux: No such file or directory
zaika:/home/siawash/flash_player_10_solaris_r0_d584_x86# ./flashplayer-installer
bash: ./flashplayer-installer: No such file or directory
zaika:/home/siawash/flash_player_10_solaris_r0_d584_x86#


Still nothing..



Please help as i need my flash...!

IIRC Adobe only packs a deb for ubuntu. Try "apt-get/aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree", or get the .tar.gz from Adobe.

It sounds like you left out the very first step. You have to untar the tarball (tar.gz file) first.
Go to the directory where you downloaded the targball and then execute this command.
Then carry on as you did before.
cheers,
jdk

http://packages.debian.org/etch-back...plugin-nonfree

Hi farslayer, I tried

aptitude -t etch-backports install debian-backports-keyring

Which seemed to want to remove an earlier "failed" flash installation. It succeeded resoloving some dependencies.

On doing

aptitude -t etch-backports install “flashplugin-nonfree"

The cursur got stuck on

>

Now, i am not sure whether I was being impatient. but did't wait longer than 3 mins.
I figure your solution would work after a clean rebuild.

Before I go ahead, is there another port for installing RealPlayer. I had been using a third party player up to now. Would prefer one supported from Debian repositories.

What does this mean when run aptitude update


W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

For the keyring error: sudo wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -
Or run the "aptitude -t etch-backports install debian-backports-keyring" again if it did not go through.

Leave out the "" from: aptitude -t etch-backports install flashplugin-nonfree