[GRLUG] Flash on Debian/Iceweasel

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:52:31AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Ben Rousch wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >

This is how it is supposed to work.

> That's probably the issue, .. unfortunately, neither does it install from
> the Adobe site. Anyone have a suggestion?

Manually copy the files from Adobe's tarball?  There aren't many files.
I believe the libflashplayer.so is the only one you need for Flash to
work.  Put it here: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
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