Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 09/08/2015 02:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:52:56PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 09/08/2015 01:30 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> > > > Methinks you have deb-multimedia configured somehow in your sources.
> > >
> > > I suspect something else is going on. I also am running Wheezy and have
> > > this line in sources.list:
> > >
> > >    deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
> > >
> > > I do an aptitude update and upgrade, and when I do:
> > >
> > >    # aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > >    No candidate version found for flashplayer-mozilla
> >
> > Trouble shooting with a shotgun here... suppose you add "contrib" to that
> > line and try again?? Ric
> >
> > p/s I do have flashplugin-nonfree installed instead.
>
> I agree about the shotgun bit, or consider it more like "perfecting your
> swimming in a shark tank."
>
> read:
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ
>
> before swimming in the http://www.deb-multimedia.org tank.


I don't use it at all. :) Ric


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