Re: flash plugin
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:30:52AM -0500, 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.
>>
>
> as has already been mentioned, just grab the tarball and install it
> yourself.
>
> But, you have reminded me... the release went final but the debian
> package hasn't been updated so it 1) can't find the file for download
> and 2) if you manually download it and rename it, it can't install
> because the md5 sum doesn't match... I'm off to check the bug reports
> and file one if needed.
>
> A
Why are you all making such a big deal of this? If you're using
IceWeasel, all you have to do it hit any webpage that uses flash
(http://distrowatch.com for example) and click on the install missing
plugin icon. It will install Flash 9.0... at least it did for me.
Joe
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