[Cialug] Reloaded Debian

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Yes. At minimum you'll probably have to add "non-free" to your 
sources.list since Flash is, um, non-free.

On Wednesday January 28 2009 12:49, Tom Sellers wrote:
>I checked to be sure that I did not have "testing" in my sources file
> this time.  I didn't see flashplayer-mozilla as an option when I
> searched for flash using Synaptic package manager.  Is this dependant
> on the lines in the sources.list file?
>
>--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> 
wrote:
>> From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Reloaded Debian
>> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 12:26 PM
>> 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.
>
>See below
>
>> 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.
>
>Already removed the one that didn't work!
>
>> >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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Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
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