[SOLVED] New install of squeeze, how get flash player?

lugoteehalt · 01-23-2011, 08:48 PM

Just installed squeeze can't get adobe flash player for youtube etc.. Tried http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...queeze-834767/ but it didn't work.

Code:

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree 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 'flashplugin-nonfree' has no installation candidate

Great thanks any help.

michalng · 01-23-2011, 09:10 PM

I did this to my squeeze installation

Quote:

aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

and got this

Quote:

The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
flashplugin-nonfree
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Get:1 ................

and the installation continues

Believe your /etc/apt/sources.list looks something like this?

Quote:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib

Hungry ghost · 01-23-2011, 10:32 PM

Did you make sure you have the "non-free" and "contrib" repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list (besides "main")? It should look something like this:

Code:

deb http://whatever.server.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Regards.

EDIT: didn't realize michalng had already pointed out the sources.list part.

lugoteehalt · 01-24-2011, 12:07 PM

Thanks both. That looks like the problem, wrong /etc/apt/sources.list. So added the last line thus:

Code:

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

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

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

But it still won't work, even after a reboot:

Code:

aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree
No candidate version found for flashplugin-nonfree
No candidate version found for flashplugin-nonfree
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
                                         
root@fido:/home/lugo# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree 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

Am mystified therefore.
It is 64 bit but the Adobe thing now works for that.

Hungry ghost · 01-24-2011, 12:44 PM

Did you execute aptitude update (or apt-get update) after editing your sources.list? You must execute in order to update the list of packages.

EDIT: BTW, you can add the "contrib" and "non-free" repos in the first two lines of your sources.list file, since you already have the lines for the main server there; should look something like this:

Code:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

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

lugoteehalt · 01-24-2011, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odiseo77

Did you execute aptitude update (or apt-get update) after editing your sources.list? You must execute in order to update the list of packages.

EDIT: BTW, you can add the "contrib" and "non-free" repos in the first two lines of your sources.list file, since you already have the lines for the main server there; should look something like this:

Code:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

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

Huge thanks. That was the problem, so did apt-get update and then flashplayer-nonfree installed:

Code:

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 25 not upgraded.

Sorry, bit misleading, that after 'apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree' The point is flashplayer-nonfree is installed.

However at youtube.com the videos don't work. Right clicking on the screen, after a worrying delay reveals that Gnash 0.8.8 is what is running, not Adobe flash player. So I should uninstall Gnash?? Sorry if I'm not being too bright.

Hungry ghost · 01-24-2011, 02:56 PM

Yes, I think the best idea is to uninstall gnash; purging it is probably better, so it doesn't interfere with the non-free flash plugin; in order to purge it, simply run:

Code:

aptitude purge gnash browser-plugin-gnash

After this, flash sites should work.

Regards.

lugoteehalt · 01-24-2011, 10:19 PM

Thanks, that fixed it. Now have video on youtube. However there is no sound. Went to alsamixer and it was using the TV card. The whole computer is odd and slow. Did think it was strigi making its database but it seems to have finished. If someone could work out the problem, perhaps it often happens with new installations of squeeze??

Anyroad flash player now works, minus sound, so I'd better mark this thread as solved. Huge thanks for the definitive advice.