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 - burni...@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > >
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.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org