Re: 64-bit Flash Player

["Clifford W. Hansen" <clifford@nighthawk.co.za>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 09:38:57 Johann Spies wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:49:59PM -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote:
> > I just did a fresh install.. So what I did was.
> >
> > mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
> > and move the .so there.
> >
> > get rid of any other instances of a previous flash install.
> >
> > I did nothing else, didn't attempt to install anything else..  Works
> > like a charm here.
>
> Strange.  This did not work for me on an Ubuntu Hardy installation as
> well as on Debian Lenny. Although Firefox (about:plugins) would show
> that the flashplayer is active, it just did not work.
>
> Regards
> Johann

I have this installed and working on a Lenny install.

I added:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
to /etc/apt/sources.list and then just "apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla"

% apt-cache showpkg flashplayer-mozilla
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Versions:
2:10.0.12.36-0.4 (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-
multimedia.org_dists_lenny_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-
multimedia.org_dists_lenny_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: bb9247096c537dda139929f0e5c61b84


Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
2:10.0.12.36-0.4 - libc6 (2 2.3.6-6) libfontconfig1 (2 2.4.0) libfreetype6 (2 
2.2) libglib2.0-0 (2 2.12.0) libgtk2.0-0 (2 2.8.0) libx11-6 (0 (null)) 
libxext6 (0 (null)) iceweasel (16 (null)) www-browser (0 (null)) 
nspluginwrapper (0 (null)) ia32-libs-libcurl3 (0 (null)) ia32-libs-libnss3 (0 
(null)) ia32-libs-gtk (0 (null)) gsfonts-x11 (0 (null)) flashplugin-nonfree (0 
(null))
Provides:
2:10.0.12.36-0.4 -
Reverse Provides:

Hope this helps...

Clifford.