Iceweasel Flash Plugin
Dear Debian users,
Being a Fedora user myself, I have little experience with Iceweasel or how much of Debian works. I am attempting to install the Flash plugin on a Debian machine in Iceweasel, to no avail. The machine is 32 bit, version 4.0, with GNOME as the GUI. I have tried installing the tarball from the flash website and the .deb package. The .deb file has a dependency problem that I can not resolve. The tarball finished "installing" in about two seconds, and I do not think that it did anything. How might I go about doing this correctly? |
open synaptic, type flash in the search window.
install he flashplayers you need |
Specifically, what is the name of the package that I should install? Typically, Synaptic hangs when I try to search.
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flashplugin-nonfree
flashplayer-mozilla flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound |
For flashplugin-nonfree you need contrib non-free in your sources.list
for flashplayer-mozilla you need the debian-multimedia.org repo. |
Thank you all, I will try when I am in the same building as the machine, this afternoon.
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I have added the repos and am still not finding anything in Synaptic.
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It would be worth posting the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.
Just to see exactly what you have. Regards. The trooper. |
Here it is:
# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free |
I couldn't find anything in the repos. I tried the package from Adobe, installation totally failed, but flash now works in iceweasel out of spite??
I'm not touching flash until I absolutely have to update. |
For Etch you need backports.org repo for Lenny your best bet would be to use debian-multimedia.org or install flashplugin-nonfree from Sid.
Debian User Forums :: View topic - Installing Adobe Flash http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=33872 |
Excellent. I have installed the plugin, thank you.
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iceweasel and flashplugin
I know this is old, but this thread is relevant to me (albeit a year later) and didn't solve my problem, and my solution may be good for some others who might be searching the great online:
craigevil is right (i.e. you have to add "deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free" to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then run "sudo apt-get update"; then, I ran "sudo apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" just to avoid the "not verified" type warning when actually then running "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree"). The problem for me is that I'm a minimalist, so I use iceweasel that came with xfce (as opposed to firefox that would work with the above); SO, I had to "sudo mkdir /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins" and "sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins" for iceweasel to work. Could also have "sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so" from inside the iceweasel plugins folder. ippatmore: curious how your iceweasel works without this step? |
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about:plugins (I use flashplayer-mozilla from the debian-multimedia.org repo) Shockwave Flash Filename /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so Plugin Version: Plugin Description: Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45 $update-alternatives --list flash-mozilla.so /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so Iceweasel plugins can be in either /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Code:
ls -l /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins |
smallest footprint possible requires some extra tweaking
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So, my case is more like an exception (rather than just trying to get others to perform unnecessary steps). |
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