Dear Folks,

I have run Debian 4.0 for a while and decided to create a fresh install of Debian 5 yesterday. It all went fine except....

When I run iceweasel and try to play flash video (typically youtube stuff - I'm into wood turning ) the video does not run - just a black square and no sound.

Any help gratefully received

Greeb

a simple command will solve it:
see http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

* debian 4.0/"etch" is unsupported from the beginning of the year...

Thanks for your help. I tried this from root and it says there is no install candidate + other stuff

i run kde and use the kpackage manager. the flashplugin is not listed in the package list.

I put this in etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny non-free

not sure if syntax is right or if I need it. kpackage still does not show the flashplugin package.

Just to let you know the above sounds like I know what I'm doing but I'm pretty green really.

Thanks for help
Greeb

Adding Debian Multimedia repo will solve your problem.

Keyring:

Repository:

Debian Multimedia Home Page :

You don't need the multimedia-repo, just add contrib and non-free to your sources.listand then doBy the way, Debian 6 will be released soon, after that you will get security updates only for one year. I would recommend to go for Debian 6 and omit Debian 5.

Going for an easy solution download flashplayer from Adobe here

I wouldn't recommend that, for two reasons.
1. It is not trivial to install that way, the debs there are for Ubuntu, so you have to use the tgz.
2. You will not get automatic security updates.

That debs works fine in Debian. Afterall Ubuntu is a Debian clone .

Thanks Tobisgd

I put this in the KDE package sources and the flashplugin package was found and installed ok.

However, nothing has changed in iceweasel.

If i go to tools, addons plugins it says 'shockwave flash 9.0 r100

Any further help much appreciated.

Greeb

sorry further to this - the package it found and installed was flashplugin-nonfree extrasound

Gnash was giving me problems so I uninstalled and used sun-java from synaptic.
You probably need to add debian backports to /etc/apt/sources.list.

Dear all thanks again for your help.

I have not been able to find the debian package flashplugin-nonfree

here is my sources list:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090413-00:33]/ lenny contrib main

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib

deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free

Is my sources list o.k?


I have been able to find a similar but different package called flashplayer-mozilla and install it successfully (although Iceweasel doesn't see it / use it)

So I am still stuck in three departments really:

1) When I run iceweasel and look in tools addons plugins it says it has shockwave flash 9.0 r100 enabled. However I cannot play e.g. youtube video (or any other)

2) I have not been able to find the package you mention flashplugin-nonfree

3) although I have been able to find and install flashplayer-mozilla (if it is of any use in my quest), I do not know how to make Iceweasel accept it/ recognise it/ install the addon whatever the right terminology would be.

so question is where do I go from here?

Thanks again, I appreciate your help

apparently needs sid

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid contrib non-free

to get the flashplugin-nonfree package.

I have installed it now and works o.k.

Thanks for help

Debian and Ubuntu are not binary compatible. Using Ubuntu's packages in Debian, and vice versa, can mess up your system.

Not really ok.
You don't need entries for main, another for contrib/non-free.
It is all in one line.
Like this:
You don't need sid-repositories to use flash. You can either use multitmedia-flash or the one from backports
(do a "apt-cache search flash", and both will pop up, in case you got both repos:
http://backports.debian.org/

Using sid or testing packages in stable is plain wrong (at least in my opinion).
If stable does not offer what one wants the way to go is:
a) backporting it oneself
b) upgrading to testing (which is reasonable stable for a home user).

Lenny will soon be old-stable. Consider upgrading to Squeeze.

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