[Cialug] Reloaded Debian

[Tom Sellers]

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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