[GRLUG] Flash on Debian/Iceweasel

[Ben Rousch]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:09 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Jeff DeFouw wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:32:08PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> > OK, .. what's the trick to the Flash plugin?
>> >
>> > > Installed flashplugin-nonfree, .. but it did not install the plugin for
>> > Mozilla/IceWeasel;
>>
>> Works for me, although it's been a while since the package was
>> installed/upgraded.  Here are the paths in Debian unstable:
>>
> Do you recall if flashplugin-nonfree was the package you installed? Part
> of the problem is that I don't have ftp access from this machine so I have
> to download and install manually.

If I recall correctly, the flashplugin-nonfree package installs an
installer, which should then download and install the actual Flash
files. Yeah, it sucks. If you have restricted network access the
second download may not be happening.


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