How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Lists,

is there a 86_64 version ?

Jerome

Hi all,
Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
or
2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)

I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
it was happy.

[t***@op.pl]

Post by Jerome BENOIT
Hello Lists,
is there a 86_64 version ?
Jerome

No:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

only 32bit version.

Tomek

Post by Jerome BENOIT

Hi all,
Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
or
2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)

I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
it was happy.

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