HELP.
I installed debian 6 2 days ago, but I cannot watch and videos in youtube. I have flash player non free installed but still cannot watch videos in youtube. I have followed several tutorials on how to install it and as far as I can know i have done every thing right. Can some please help me on how to do this from scratch even if it means removing software and starting over again. I am pulling my hair out as to what Im doing wrong. I even removed iceweasel through synaptic and then did a reinstall made no difference.

Ok got it working i had to install gnash. I was told to uninstall gnash from another forum, but reinstalled this morning and can watch videos in you tube now. But now yy daughter was on the pc since and now her facebook games wont load. Lets say the game is farm-town the pages just's keeps loading really quickly but thats all it does. (using ice weasel). I have chromium installed and tried it, her page loads but there is nothing on the page. PLZ PLZ PLZ help this is never ending don't want to uninstall debian

Gnash sadly is not at the state the proprietary Flash player is, that is why the games won't work. If you want to get it working you should uninstall Gnash and install the non-free Flash player. If you have bot installed, Gnash and the Adobe player, you will run into problems, so use either one or the other.

Ok but when I uninstall gnash I have nothing, cant watch videos, face book games wont load or nothing. Il uninstall it now. I have flash non free installed because when i open synaptic its marked as installed and also in software centre its marked as installed.

Try if it helps if you re-install the non-free packages.

A non-working Flash may be caused by your having the wrong version for your CPU:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...us-4175420481/

I've had that problem with flashplugin-nonfree it ended when I went to /usr/lib/flashplugin & double-clicked on public-key, which imported & saved key.

apt-get purge gnash
apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

then delete pluginreg.dat in your Iceweasel profile

Gnash now uninstalled and back to unable to play videos, like i said before i have flash non free installed so i dont know what I am doing wrong.

Try post #7 & 8

Please post the output of so that we can see if DavidMcCann's solution applies here.

root@debian:/home/kieran# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1200.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm
bogomips : 5200.77
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1200.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm
bogomips : 5199.74
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

root@debian:/home/kieran#

now im getting this message from terminal as per post 8 from craigevil

root@debian:/home/kieran# apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20120128-13:42'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter

(Reading database ... 143623 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-nonfree 1:2.8.2 (using .../flashplugin-nonfree_2.8.2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:2.8.2) ...
--2012-09-26 19:07:15-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get....x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `fpdownload.macromedia.com'
ERROR: wget failed to download http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get....x86_64.tar.gz
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
N: Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
root@debian:/home/kieran#
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thanks guys for your help so far really appreciate this and dont mean to waste your time

---------- Post added 09-26-12 at 01:11 PM ----------

now im getting this message from terminal as per post 8 from craigevil

root@debian:/home/kieran# apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20120128-13:42'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter

(Reading database ... 143623 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-nonfree 1:2.8.2 (using .../flashplugin-nonfree_2.8.2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:2.8.2) ...
--2012-09-26 19:07:15-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get....x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `fpdownload.macromedia.com'
ERROR: wget failed to download http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get....x86_64.tar.gz
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
N: Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
root@debian:/home/kieran#
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thanks guys for your help so far really appreciate this and dont mean to waste your time

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
as root #
as user $
comment out 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20120128-13:42'
by putting # in front of it

You should be able to install the Genuine Adobe Flash 11 plugin if your cpu is sse2 enabled. Flash 11.2 is the last release from Adobe.

#cat /proc/cpuinfo look in 'flags' line for 'sse2', there's a guide and download link to it at

http://minimallinux.blogspot.co.uk/2...obe-flash.html

The guide is for Centos/RHEL but should easily adapt to Debian

If your cpu is only sse enabled then you want Flash 10 which you can find at the bottom of the same page