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( it retuires latest Flash player like adobe but when i downloaded and
tried to install, a lot of problems are there)
Hence which program should I use to install the pluggins
You need to tell us which distribution you are using, so that we know exactly what the name of the package is. You do not download the Flash player from any third party, just use the repository. For instance, if you are using Ubuntu what you need to install is the Ubuntu restricted extras package via Add / Remove.
E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-fonts
sun:/home/sunil# apt-get install sun-java5-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package sun-java5-jre 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
E: Package sun-java5-jre has no installation candidate
Obviously this should be done after modifying your sources list.
If you don't install the keyring apt or aptitude will give you an error message telling you it is missing, and cannot verify the relevant packages.
Here's a link to their website:
Edit:
Also as Farslayer pointed out, to watch flash video,you need the flash plugin.
The java plugin unsurprisingly runs java applets in your browser,not flash.
Last edited by the trooper; 12-09-2008 at 08:58 AM.
sun:/home/sunil# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070819-11:52]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070819-11:52]/ etch contrib main
( it retuires latest Flash player like adobe but when i downloaded and
tried to install, a lot of problems are there)
Just download the Adobe flash 10 .tar.gz file to your home directory from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Click on the "select version to dowload" box to download the .tar.gz file.
Untar it:
Code:
tar -xvzf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
This will create a folder called install_flash_player_10_linux. Copy the libflashplayer.so in that folder to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
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