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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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. <br><br>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'. <br><br><a href="http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html" target="_blank">http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html</a><br><br>Have you successfully run Debian 'Wheezy' with flashplayer installed in Mozilla Firefox before? <br><br>I know I am asking for your help but I think it's a valid issue and I appreciate your thoughts.<br><br>Thank you<br><br>Paul G<br><br>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.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:51:49 -0600<br>From: jus@krytosvirus.com<br>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'<br><br>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. <div><br></div><div>Maybe it will solve your needs? </div><div>http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-google-chrome.html</div><div><br></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: paul g <br>Date:02/27/2014 8:30 PM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: TCLUG Mailing List <br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy' <br><br><div dir="ltr">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. <br><br>As I know I am wondering about this initial installation report of-><br><br><code>paul@debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Suggested packages:<br>
konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal<br>The following NEW packages will be installed:<br> flashplugin-nonfree<br>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.<br>Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.<br>(Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)<br>Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...<br>
Processing triggers for man-db ...<br>Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...<br>Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...<br>Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...<br>Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...<br>
ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc<br>More information might be available at:<br> <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer" target="_blank">http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer</a><br></code><br>It only shows up the first time after everything is purged out etc. from apt. <br><br>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.<br><br>Paul G<br><br><br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: stuporglue@gmail.com<br>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:05:49 -0600<br>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, David Wagle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.wagle@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.wagle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">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. <br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't have Netflix, but the old plugin version is still works for Hulu, Amazon Prime and YouTube. <br><br></div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">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. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. <br>
<br>--<br></div><div>Michael Moore<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="ecxHOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuporglue@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:11 PM, paul g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">I am having some 'issues' trying to install Adobe flash-player on Debian 'Wheezy' <br>running:<br><br>Kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64<br><br>Gnome 3<br><br>Iceweasel 24.3.0<br><br>I have successfully installed openjdk- and icedtea-<br>
<br>I have read quite a few forums etc.<br><br><br><br>Below are the content's of my /etc/apt/sources.list<br><br># <br><br># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary <a target="_blank">20131013-23</a>:23]/ wheezy main<br>
<br># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary <a target="_blank">20131013-23</a>:23]/ wheezy main<br><br># Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:<br>
# deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://security.debian.org/</a> wheezy/updates main<br># Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:<br>deb <a href="http://http.us.debian.org/debian/" target="_blank">http://http.us.debian.org/debian/</a> wheezy contrib non-free main<br>
deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/debian-security" target="_blank">http://security.debian.org/debian-security</a> wheezy/updates main<br># deb-src <a href="http://security.debian.org/debian-security" target="_blank">http://security.debian.org/debian-security</a> wheezy/updates main<br>
# deb-src <a href="http://security.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://security.debian.org/</a> wheezy/updates main<br># deb <a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian</a> stable main contrib non-free<br>
deb <a href="http://lug.mtu.edu/debian" target="_blank">http://lug.mtu.edu/debian</a> wheezy-backports main<br><br>I have run the command: <code>sudo apt-get update<br><br></code><code>then have run the command: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree <br>
<br>then receive output:<br><br>paul@debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Suggested packages:<br>
konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal<br>The following NEW packages will be installed:<br> flashplugin-nonfree<br>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.<br>Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.<br>(Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)<br>Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...<br>
Processing triggers for man-db ...<br>Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...<br>Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...<br>Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...<br>Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...<br>
ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc<br>More information might be available at:<br> <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer" target="_blank">http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer</a><br><br>
<br><br>Here are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins<br><br>paul@debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls -lah<br>total 36K<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:53 .<br>drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:30 ..<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K Jul 25 2013 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 26 02:09 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K Jul 27 2012 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so<br>paul@debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ <br>
<br>Thank you for any help.<br></code> </div></div>
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</div>I haven't
been able to get Flash working in Firefox on Debian (64 bit) for some
time. It does work in Chromium though. I haven't spent much time on it
though since I don't use Flash all that much. <br><br>--<br></div>Michael Moore <br></div></div></div></div>
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