Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:28:58 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> It's just that the installation of the Adobe plugin from the Adobe site >> is plain easy to achieve (download, copy and paste), works very well >> (plugin is detected by the browser) and you always get the la

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:14 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >>> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: >> I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, >> bypassing the Debian archive?

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-09 12:32, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with the standard Debian packa

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:14 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, > bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with th

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > >> I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe >> Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. >> > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > http://labs.adobe.co

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with the standard Debian package flashplugin-nonfree? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:57:06 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: >> >> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html >> >> And put "libflashplayer.so" under your ~/.mozilla/plugins >> >> That

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares > wrote: > > Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki > > regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions carefully. > > What is written on the Wiki is: >

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html > > And put "libflashplayer.so" under your ~/.mozilla/plugins > > That's all, at least for Iceweasel :-) No such directory structure exi

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe > Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html And put "libflashplayer.

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Squeeze is testing at the moment, so what is written in the wiki > regarding testing works for you. Just follow the instructions carefully. What is written on the Wiki is: "To do only once : Make sure your APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:33 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find > Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. > > I searched the Wiki and found this link: > > http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer > > My current source.list looks like: > > deb http://ftp.us.d

Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. I searched the Wiki and found this link: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer My current source.list looks like: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Right now I am booting from floppy because I don't want to screw up my legacy system [OS/2 4.52 which uses a Boot Manager and LVM. I think it can be sensitive to changes in boot stuff] until I have the Debian system work

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Right now I am booting from floppy because I don't want to screw up > my legacy system [OS/2 4.52 which uses a Boot Manager and LVM. I think > it can be sensitive to changes in boot stuff] until I have the Debian > system working to some minimal

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Maybe 2.4 is installed on your hard disk, but 2.2.20idepci was used for the boot floppy. What is the name of the kernel image in /boot? It should be vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. If it is, you can create a new boot floppy using that kernel. You can also choose only to ins

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hope this isn't a duplicate. Yes, it is. I answered to the other one. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >>> After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from >>> the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. >>> >>> At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the in

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the install on its way. Answered all the questions, made a boot floppy,

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Schwartz
Hope this isn't a duplicate. Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the install on its way. Answered all the qu

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from > the > Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. > > At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 > and sent the install on its way. Answered all the questions, made a > boot floppy, and reboote

Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Schwartz
After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the install on its way. Answered all the questions, made a boot floppy, and rebooted using said boot floppy. Result: the new boot floppy was iden