I thank you for the link but I am wondering why I have to use a Google Browser to obtain Flash. I do not like the thought of using Google Chrome as a main web browser on a Linux system. Do you have any thoughts about running Firefox web browser? I read an article on Tech Trends but some of it talks of 'symbolic links'. http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html Have you successfully run Debian 'Wheezy' with flashplayer installed in Mozilla Firefox before? I know I am asking for your help but I think it's a valid issue and I appreciate your thoughts. Thank you Paul G P.S. I like to think of it short and simple userwide for the systems users to have Adobe flashplayer installed would symbolic links only affect my account if I follow this article? I again am sorry for asking so many questions. Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:51:49 -0600 From: jus at krytosvirus.com To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy' An alternative could be to just use Google Chrome (note, not chromium) as Google Chrome has a flash plugin built into the browser, unlike chromium. Maybe it will solve your needs? http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-google-chrome.html -------- Original message -------- From: paul g Date:02/27/2014 8:30 PM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy' Thank you for responding so quickly. With the Debian Wheezy and Java extension plugin I have installed in Iceweasel it sems to work very well with information on Youtube but not Gmail or Hotmail login screen. At one point yesterday I had the shockwave flash plugin showing up in Iceweasel then. I believe youtube would not work. I think there may be a code conflict of some sort. As I know I am wondering about this initial installation report of-> paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-nonfree 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree. (Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ... ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer It only shows up the first time after everything is purged out etc. from apt. Should I perhaps try to look at setting a symbolic link or something of that nature? I do understand that Adobe Flash is not pure GNU. But Adobe flash works so well on Linux Mint and Ubuntu so easily for a noob like me. I am just curious and I thank you for your help. Paul G From: stuporglue at gmail.com Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:05:49 -0600 To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy' On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote: adobe has stopped supporting flash on Linux. Even if you can find a working older plugin, it won't have the ability to handle DRM stuff like Netflix. I don't have Netflix, but the old plugin version is still works for Hulu, Amazon Prime and YouTube. The current "best" solution is to install pipelight -- which sets up a modified wine instance that allows Linux browsers to use native windows versions of plugins. It is far from perfect, but it will get you a fully functional flash environment -- albeit a slightly buggy one. Bleh. Reminds me of the bad old days of using NDISWrapper for Wifi. I can't remember the last time I even saw someone asking about NDISWrapper -- I'm glad that's behind us finally. Hopefully some day this pipelight hack will be equally unnecessary. -- Michael Moore On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: I am having some 'issues' trying to install Adobe flash-player on Debian 'Wheezy' running: Kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 Gnome 3 Iceweasel 24.3.0 I have successfully installed openjdk- and icedtea- I have read quite a few forums etc. Below are the content's of my /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main # deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://lug.mtu.edu/debian wheezy-backports main I have run the command: sudo apt-get update then have run the command: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree then receive output: paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-nonfree 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree. (Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ... ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer Here are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls -lah total 36K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:53 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K Jul 25 2013 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 26 02:09 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K Jul 27 2012 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ Thank you for any help. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list Does it work in the Chromium browser? I haven't been able to get Flash working in Firefox on Debian (64 bit) for some time. It does work in Chromium though. 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