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I am using Debian etch 2.0.24 and i am trying to install flashplayer using synaptic but everytime i do apt-get install flashplayer or any other combination of package name i thonk it could be it comes back couldnt find that package. How do i ot where can i get the flashplayer package so that synaptic can install it???
ok i did that but i got this error message when i ran apt-get update
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W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
and i got this error message not sure if its linked to the last one
Code:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not installable
Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not installable
Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
sorry last post was before i say your bit about java anyway new problem
Code:
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
Package sun-java5-plugin 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-plugin has no installation candidate
ok installed java through synaptic but still running into the same problem as before regarding installing flashplugin-nonfree
Code:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not installable
Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
ok i seem to have found the issue or part of it regarding not being able to install the plugins long and short of it is that i need libasound2 1.0.13-2 but i have libasound2 1.0.19-1 and that seems to be where the problem is stemming from.
yay that worked.....in the end but i had to remove libasound2 and reinstall it with an older version to get lib32asound2 to work to get nspluginwrapper to work and then i installed flashplugin-nonfree so it works now thankyou for you help
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