Comments on: How to Install Adobe Flash in Debian Etch/Lenny/Sid

By: DanC

DanC — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:55:43 +0000

Frenchn00b:

You should double check what and where it was installed by using command :

dpkg -L flashplayer-mozilla

and copy over *so file you’ll see from previous output to :

~/.mozilla/plugins/

Somehow flashplayer-mozilla package is using wrong directory for *so file.

By: Frenchn00b

Frenchn00b — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:05:06 +0000

I have this trouble now, I even rebooted the pc:
http://img140.imageshack.us/i/flashlenny.jpg/
with installing as :

Get:1 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny/main flashplayer-mozilla 1:10.0.22.87-0.1 [3963kB]
Fetched 3963kB in 11s (357kB/s)
(Reading database … 185383 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-nonfree …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Selecting previously deselected package flashplayer-mozilla.
(Reading database … 185373 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplayer-mozilla (from …/flashplayer-mozilla_1%3a10.0.22.87-0.1_i386.deb) …
Setting up flashplayer-mozilla (1:10.0.22.87-0.1) …

any ideas?

By: Nathan Newborn

Nathan Newborn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:03:13 +0000

I did the same as Jaime Andres, (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html), and it works!

By: Jaime Andres

Jaime Andres — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:49:44 +0000

Thx, I was using nspluginwrapper but I had some issues, the flash animation overlap everything near to it. Monday I update my debian+kde4 and boom!!!, flash stop working, your solution is neat and works perfectly, Thx again

By: Yuce

Yuce — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:33:23 +0000

I’ve just installed flash 10 on Lenny AMD64 by getting the 64bit tar.gz from Adobe, uncompressing it and copying to /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins (I had to create the plugins dir). Works like a champ so far…

By: Malte

Malte — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:07:27 +0000

I had version 9 working and wanted to install version 10, but this results in:
.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4′ not found (required by .mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)

So I followed method one described here in the hope the HOWTO works around the problem. It ends with a download of version 9. Its not even installed So for Debian stable it looks like Flash 10 is neraly inpossible to use.

By: JimBroad

JimBroad — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:03:58 +0000

As a note on lenny:

After adding the debian-multimedia repos, I had to apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla and restart mozilla to see Flash player 10 in Iceweasel

By: Arthur Marsh

Arthur Marsh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:42:40 +0000

It may be cross-platform, but from what I’ve seen in this article, only i386 and amd64 cpu architectures are currently supported by Adobe. (I’ve used some Adobe plug-ins for Solaris on sun4m SPAC CPUs in the past but doubt that new versions have been written in recent years).

By: brianL

brianL — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:27:38 +0000

If all else fails, download install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz from Adobe, decompress, cd to resulting directory, then run as root:
./flashplayer-installer
Tell it to install in /usr/lib/iceweasel (and/or where ever else you want).
Works for me.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:18:30 +0000

One could simply enable the contrib and nonfree sources in debian sid . Then simply run an apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree . Then simply comment out the sid repo when your done.

By: Wido

Wido — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:24:42 +0000

i have worked with lenny + multimedia for a while. I installed flash update when it was launched, but after the first run, iceweacel and minefield (firefox 3.1) stop showing flash contents and only show a gray area. I tryed a couple times, but it always happens the same thing, so i’m “stuck” in 9

By: Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:24:26 +0000

This is one of those things that bugs me- I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 64 bit on my main box (Lenny and Etch 32 bit on my others). There is a beta 64 bit flash plugin that adobe has released (the first 64 bit native plugin for *any* platform- yeah Adobe!). The installations was- download, put it in the plugin directory. No need to add repositories, et. al.- just copy a single file to the right place. Solaris and Linux 64 bit Flash plugin.

By: leorleor

leorleor — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:07:15 +0000

thanks, the apt install with the backports keyring worked instantly, i cut and pasted ~6 of your command lines and closed and reopened iceweasel, and bam.

By: Jamin Davis

Jamin Davis — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:41:35 +0000

I last used http://www.gnash.org/ at version 0.8.3, it’s a free opensource SWF/FLV
viewer and there’s a plugin for Firefox/Konq {mozilla|konqueror}-\
plugin-gnash]. The non-GL version with a standard video xserver
works fine for SWF-enabled websites, although youtube vids are quite
slow and the sound support is iffy. The GL version [of gnash] with a GLX
video driver works somewhat better but IMHO it still needs some
serious work, wish I was a better coder . There’s a http://packages.debian.org/gnash
of 0.8.2-2 for Etch available. BTW gnash is opensource .

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:41:55 +0000

What, no mention of the free software alternatives and how Adobe Flash surrenders freedom?

By: lelutin

lelutin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:09:37 +0000

> Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users.

It is since rrrrrrencently but it has been a Windows only platform for quite a long time.

Currently, I have only one official mirror in my sources.list file, using sid, and I have the package installed. It’s probably in the non-free section :

deb ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian unstable main contrib non-free