Re: How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
> installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
> you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
>
> The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
> you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain:
>
>   WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
>
> This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
> which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can:
>
> 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
>
> or
>
> 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)
>
>   

I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
it was happy.


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