I have just got flashplayer9 working on Iceweasel in amd64 etch.
I did the following stuff recommended by some helpful guys at
http://www.dipconsultants.com:
Funny you should post this - I just got this working about an hour ago after
a lot of unsuccessful attempts. I put the plugin
Dear Debianists
I have just got flashplayer9 working on Iceweasel in amd64 etch.
I did the following stuff recommended by some helpful guys at
http://www.dipconsultants.com:
First things first, as root:
* Add repository to sources.list:
o echo deb http://www.dipconsultants.com/debian
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I suspect this is the pertinent bit. per nam updatedb, $LOCALUSER
controls which user is used to search local directories. When the cron
job runs, it uses nobody, when you run it, it runs as you. So you
(most likely) have read permissions on your local dirs, but I
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I suspect this is the pertinent bit. per nam updatedb, $LOCALUSER
controls which user is used to search local directories. When the cron
job runs, it uses nobody, when you run it, it runs as you. So you
(most likely) have read
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On 12/16/06 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote:
David Jardine wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration
directories that are set with permissions of 700. I can
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/16/06 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote:
David Jardine wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration
directories that are set
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run
on v7 that I can test this with?
I just tried http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ with
v7, and it complained that I needed a newer version; then I tried with
v9, and this site played.
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W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Marc Shapiro wrote:
Kent West wrote:
[...]
updatedb runs by default, I believe, every day. However, just to
be sure, I'd run it manually, then do another run of your
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.
On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am,
perhaps the OP's computer isn't on at that time?
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Angelina Carlton wrote:
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.
On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am,
perhaps the OP's computer isn't on at that time?
This is getting even more confusing!
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:28:14AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Angelina Carlton wrote:
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.
On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am,
perhaps the OP's
Kent West wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run
on v7 that I can test this with?
I just tried http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ with
v7, and it complained that I needed a newer version; then I tried with
v9,
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:28:14AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Angelina Carlton wrote:
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.
On my system, updatedb runs some time early in
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
[...]
I just ran locate again this morning. It found all the file and
symlinks in all the system directories that the install of
flashplayer-nonfree placed there. It DID NOT find the files in my
user directory, or in my
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to everyone
(my wife and I are the only persons with physical access). However,
~/.mozilla has permissions of 700, no access to anyone but
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to
everyone (my wife and I are the only persons with physical access).
Wulfy wrote:
I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I
really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up.
One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under
/usr/lib...
I fixed the problem... reinstalled v.7. I have sound
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories
that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents
anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger in that
(viewing, but
Wulfy wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I
really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up.
One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under
/usr/lib...
I fixed the problem... reinstalled v.7. I
David Jardine wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories
that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents
anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I
really don't know how to change that without screwing everything
up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory
under /usr/lib...
I fixed the problem...
Wulfy wrote:
Kent West wrote:
You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for
Firefox. Do a locate
libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is
the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories.
I used locate to find all the libflashplayer.so's.
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On 12/14/06 21:20, Wulfy wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote:
I saw the etch/sid deb... I'm running sarge
The dependencies seemed to be very different. I thought it
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Kent West wrote:
You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for
Firefox. Do a locate
libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is
the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories.
I don't appear to have ANY
Ron Johnson wrote:
Dumb question: have you restarted FF?
Yes. I stopped FF before making the changes.
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Kent West wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Wulfy wrote:
Kent West wrote:
You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths
for Firefox. Do a locate
libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is
the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories.
I don't
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running
'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it
still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Okay; that's getting weird.
updatedb runs by
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:32:19PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running
'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing ...
~~~
What if you spell it correctly?
Sorry.
What does about:plugins show?
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Marc Shapiro wrote:
I don't appear to have ANY version of flash currently installed --
$ aptitude search flash
p flashplayer-mozilla - Macromedia Flash Player
p flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
p flashybrid - automates
Kent West wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running
'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it
still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Okay; that's getting
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running
'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it
still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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Marc Shapiro wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running
'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it
still runs the flash on that page, as well
I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your
flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page;
http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/debian-how-to-flash-9.html
I followed the instructions on that page, purged all the debs for
flashplayer, installed the .so
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On 12/14/06 15:09, Wulfy wrote:
I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your
flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page;
http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/debian-how-to-flash-9.html
I followed the
Wulfy wrote:
I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your
flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this
page;
http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/debian-how-to-flash-9.html
I followed the instructions on that page, purged all the debs for
flashplayer,
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/14/06 15:09, Wulfy wrote:
I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your
flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page;
Kent West wrote:
You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for
Firefox. Do a locate
libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is
the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories.
I used locate to find all the libflashplayer.so's. Most are
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On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/14/06 15:09, Wulfy wrote:
I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your
flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this
page;
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote:
I saw the etch/sid deb... I'm running sarge
The dependencies seemed to be very different. I thought it would be
unsafe to install that deb.
Ah, ok. I think I'd locate
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