Re: flash plugin
Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both
> installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to
> download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent
> file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree package did not
> recognize it.
>
> Here is a printout of the error I get when I try to reconfigure it:
>
> debian:/home/mark# dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree
> Downloading...
> --00:17:57--
>
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz
> => `./FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz'
> Resolving download.macromedia.com... 72.246.35.191
> Connecting to download.macromedia.com|72.246.35.191|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> 404 Not Found
> 00:19:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> download failed
> The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
>
>
> If anyone has any tips on how I can fix this, I would appreciate it. I
> did manage, on another computer at my work, to get flash installed with
> this package; so, why it won't work on my home computer is a mystery. I'm
> using Etch.
>
> Mark
Hi Mark,
Just get the tarball directly from Adobe. You can find it here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW
The installation instructions are on this link but I just manually stick the
two files in ~/.mozilla/plugins. The files are flashplayer.xpt and
libflashplayer.so. I'm running Firefox and this is where it wants them.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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