Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 13:56 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > I'd just like to add my support to the notion of documenting that you > can install flash manually (if not the specific steps themselves). The > flash plugin package, even when available, was a horrid nightmare that > routinely broke things. I

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
I'd just like to add my support to the notion of documenting that you can install flash manually (if not the specific steps themselves). The flash plugin package, even when available, was a horrid nightmare that routinely broke things. It executed too much code as root in postinst context and sat i

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:33 -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Franklin PIAT wrote: >> > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, 200

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:33 -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT > >>> > >>> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Did you verify before yo

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Lukasz, >>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 a

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Franklin PIAT
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Lukasz, >> >>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Lukasz Szybalski sc

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Javier Di Mauro
2008/11/5 Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lukasz, > > > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > >>

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-05 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lukasz, > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> >> >> >> Lukasz Szybalski schrieb: >> >> > It was there befo

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Lukasz, > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > >> > >> Lukasz Szybalski schrieb: > >> > It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian > >> > repository? > >> > >> See

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
Did you verify before you deleted the section form manualhowto? The manual-howto had instruction on how to manually install flash player to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ vs the "flash=player page does not. Why was it removed again? "Flashplugin-nonfree has been removed (see below), as this is closed s

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:14 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Lukasz Szybalski schrieb: > > It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian repository? > > See http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217. It was removed with 4.0r3 > because of missing security suppor

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Rafal Czlonka
Tim Legg wrote: > Obviously there was an ommission of a step somewhere within the process or > that the document has become a bit obsolete. Quote: Debian stable - Adobe Flash Player 9 Architecture: i386 To do only once : use the instructions at _Combine Debian stable and backports.org_, see b

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Lukasz Szybalski schrieb: > It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian repository? See http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217. It was removed with 4.0r3 because of missing security support. Updated packages are available via backports.org. Best regards, Alexander

Re: Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
hmmm It was there before. Was flashplugin-nonfree removed from debian repository? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=flashplugin-nonfree while we find what has happen try using these instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-982d3caa6c2f1c99d768fe805ac7194f532899a7 Lucas

Debian Wiki FlashPlayer page

2008-11-04 Thread Tim Legg
Hello, Regarding the page http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer, In executing the step, # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree I get an error, Package flashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is