Re: flash / iceweasel / all that
Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> I should probably admit that I haven't been booting my Debian install
> lately, and it has mainly been due to irritation with Iceweasel and not
> doing anything constructive about it b/c it worked fine over on another
> Linux system I have (no names ...).
>
> I am running testing and have been for some time. I don't recall when
> Flash stopped working, but this has been the case for some time. At
> first, I searched in Aptitude for anything related to Flash, just to
> make sure I had everything available installed. No help.
>
> I just read over a few threads in the -user list, & on the strength of
> what I found I tried simply following the "install the latest version"
> link from a Flash-intensive site ... chose the (Ubuntu) .deb and
> installed it. Restarted Iceweasel, enabled the new Flash player v. 10 in
> the plugins dialogue and disabled the older ones. Restarted Iceweasel.
>
> No Flash. Still got the lovely
>
> "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of
> Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."
>
> Javascript is on. I did a dpkg-reconfigure on adobe-flashplugin.
> Restarted Iceweasel, checked plugins ... and v. 10 of the Flash player
> had disappeared and I was still getting the same message when I tried to
> play anything on Youtube.
>
> I'm 98% certain I am doing something stupid here, but would appreciate
> it if someone could point me in the direction of ... something that will
> tell me how to diagnose the problem and make it all better. Cuz I'm
> close to throwing the laptop (or just my Debian installation) against
> the wall.
>
> Thx,
>
> Glenn
>
>
> +-----------------------------------------------------+
> Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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>
>
I just downloaded the tar.gz from adobe and copied libflashplayer.so to
~/.mozilla/plugins..
You probably want to remove anything that aptitude search flash finds
installed..
As far as a packaged version working.. I have never had any luck on
debian..
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