Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both > installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to > download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent > file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree package did not > recognize it. > > Here is a printout of the error I get when I try to reconfigure it: > > debian:/home/mark# dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree > Downloading... > --00:17:57-- > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz > => `./FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz' > Resolving download.macromedia.com... 72.246.35.191 > Connecting to download.macromedia.com|72.246.35.191|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... > 404 Not Found > 00:19:58 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > download failed > The Flash plugin is NOT installed. > > > If anyone has any tips on how I can fix this, I would appreciate it. I > did manage, on another computer at my work, to get flash installed with > this package; so, why it won't work on my home computer is a mystery. I'm > using Etch. > > Mark Hi Mark, Just get the tarball directly from Adobe. You can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW The installation instructions are on this link but I just manually stick the two files in ~/.mozilla/plugins. The files are flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so. I'm running Firefox and this is where it wants them. Cheers, Jonathan
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