Re: Mozilla and Flash
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:16:40 -0400
Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 12:47:22PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote:
> > Running Mozilla/5.0 1.7.8-1sarge10 (current stable release).
> >
> > I am curious whether it is possible to get some version of Flash to
> > work?
>
> > Here is what I did to this point:
> >
> > apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> >
> > Found: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb
> >
> > Tried (as root) : dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb
> >
> > Churned away a bit and returned to prompt.
> >
> > Still no Flash available in Mozilla.
> >
> > Went to youtube to determine if the plugin was installed but I was
> > just too thick to see it.
> > When clicking on a video, message shown was "JavaScript turned off
> > or an old version of Flash Player....yadayada"
> >
> > Anybody got a hint or even better, a solution (one that does not
> > involve -- wait for Etch, etc...I know someone wants to say
> > that!) ???
> >
> > Thanks, all
> > Dave W.
> >
>
> Well, using Firefox you can always install it the regular way (The
> browser prompt, when it says "Click here to install addition packages
> needed to display the page correctly", or whatever).
>
> Honestly that is the easiest way to do it, since I know a lot of
> people have had troubles doing it the "Debian" way.
>
> Or you could always get the tar.gz package from Adobe and run that,
> the installer seems to work 100% of the time without any problems.
Or extract libflashplayer.so from the tar.gz and copy it to Mozilla's
plugins directory.
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