Installing flash player 10 on Debian 5.0

D4rkFox · 01-10-2010, 12:38 AM

Hey, I tried googling how to install Flash player on Debian 5.0, but I end up not being able to

Can anyone give me a link, or show me how to install flash player? thanks

~sHyLoCk~ · 01-10-2010, 12:41 AM

You didn't google hard.

Anyway, enable nonfree and then apt-get install flashplugin [I think!]

D4rkFox · 01-10-2010, 12:42 AM

Non free is enabled

Quote:

apt-get install flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
flashplugin-nonfree
E: Package flashplugin has no installation candidate

~sHyLoCk~ · 01-10-2010, 12:48 AM

Quote:

However the following packages replace it:
flashplugin-nonfree

Err..

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ?

D4rkFox · 01-10-2010, 12:52 AM

Quote:

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Sorry if I'm doing something wrong...

~sHyLoCk~ · 01-10-2010, 01:16 AM

It's already installed. Can't you vie it in iceweasel?

D4rkFox · 01-10-2010, 01:22 AM

http://i49.tinypic.com/14tmozo.png

It doesn't work with Quake Live, I have to have flash player 10 installed.

lupusarcanus · 01-10-2010, 01:33 AM

What about:

Quote:

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin flashplugin-installer

??

I have Ubuntu (based on Debian) flash player working well in Google Chrome for Christ sake!

D4rkFox · 01-10-2010, 01:40 AM

It still says

Quote:

E: Package adobe-flashplugin has no installation candidate

I don't know what to do

anj · 01-10-2010, 01:44 AM

You can download it http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
and install it ! I think it's easy!

lupusarcanus · 01-10-2010, 01:54 AM

You may already have it installed. It looks like it from one of the above posts.
Have a look at the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory and see if libflashplayer.so exists.

If not, find it, and move it there.

Here proof of mine working and the aforementioned directory (With an alternative).

Elv13 · 01-10-2010, 02:01 AM

move the flash ".so" from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or any folder looking like your browser name in /usr/lib

repo · 01-10-2010, 02:04 AM

in your browser type

Code:

about:plugins

which flash version is installed?

craigevil · 01-10-2010, 02:49 AM

If you are running Debian stable you need to first add the backports.org repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list

Then do aptitude update
aptitude install backports.org-keyring flashplugin-nonfree

Adobe flash is only in non-free in testing and unstable, it is not nor will it ever be in the official Debian stable repos.

craigevil · 01-10-2010, 02:49 AM

If you are running Debian stable you need to first add the backports.org repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list

Then do aptitude update
aptitude install backports.org-keyring flashplugin-nonfree

Adobe flash is only in non-free in testing and unstable, it is not nor will it ever be in the official Debian stable repos.