[Cialug] Reloaded Debian

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Debian 4 (Etch) i got flash working by installing 
flashplayer-mozilla. I'm not sure which repository it got pulled from; 
i have all these in my sources.list:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ stable main contrib 
non-free restricted

Please note, if you want to stay on Etch, do not just blindly add the 
"testing" line above to your sources.list. I have some other lines in 
preferences and apt.conf that prevent the entire system from upgrading 
to Testing, but allow me to install a small number of packages from it.


On Wednesday January 28 2009 11:53, Tim Champion wrote:
>I had that problem with Ubuntu.  I think I ended up going to the Adobe
> Flash download page, and they had a non-free(dom) but free-as-in-beer
> Linux player that works well.
>
>http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=DXLUJ
>
>I'd remove the one you installed the doesn't work first.
>
>Tim Champion
>timchampion at gmail.com
>
>On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Tom Sellers 
<tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>> I reloaded my laptop with Debian 4 to get back to the stable
>> version.  Now I am having trouble getting either Ephiphany or
>> Iceweasel to run the Adobe Flash applets on several web pages.  In
>> particular the www.kcci.comwebsite has a Flash box right in the
>> middle of their web page.  I loaded the flash plugin for mozilla
>> after the reload and it just puts a box there with a icon going
>> round and round the center which says "loading" forever.
>>
>> Did I choose the wrong plugin?  How do you determine what is the
>> appropriate plugin?
>>
>> When I loaded the flash plugin originally I did not use the Synaptic
>> package manager.  I thought that might have been what was causing my
>> problems after the update last time.  I wanted to stick with the
>> proper update method this time around.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
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