Problems making Flash 10 working in Lenny [SOLVED]

[qyron]

I've already went through the regular process of installation, adding the backports repository and doing the debian way installation, but somehow the system isn't assuming the plugin.

I've rebooted the web browser and even the entire system, but still the plugin does not work.

Does anyone has had a similar problem and got it solved?

[msoloff]

Hi qyron,

Which browser are you using?

[izar]

Try the multimedia repositories.
You have to add non-free to the multimedia entry in /etc/apt/sources.list so that it reads like this:

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deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free

Then do:

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aptitude update

and

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aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla

Further information is available on the multimedia site in case you run into problems.

[qyron]

Hi qyron,

Which browser are you using?

I'm using Iceweasel.

[nadir]

Does anyone has had a similar problem and got it solved?

now and then someone has got problems cause swfdec-mozilla is installed. check for flash (in synaptic or with apt*). if swdfec or gnash is installed you may either remove it or use update-alternatives to configure it (which i wouldn't know how to be done). might be this helps, might be it doesn't.

[qyron]

Try the multimedia repositories.
You have to add non-free to the multimedia entry in /etc/apt/sources.list so that it reads like this:

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deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free

Then do:

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aptitude update

and

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aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla

Further information is available on the multimedia site in case you run into problems.

I've used all of that, Izar. Only difference is that I use APT instead of aptitude.

The flashplayer-mozilla displays a grey play-button over whatever flash content may be in a given webpage.
With a search on the web, I discovered that I could install Flash 10 using the backports repositories, but although I've added the repository and installed the non-free plugin, that is supposed to grab from the Adobe site the latest version available and install it (according to the message in Synaptic) I was unsuccessful.
I still get the same grey button-like baner over the flash content of any web page.

This only pains me because I use regularly some sites that are basically built in flash (it seems nobody likes to use the good old HTML these days ) and with the working non-free plugin I'm (was) able to allow what sites can load flash content and those who are not allowed to.

I had the plugin installed and working in a previous installation, but due to a HDD failure I had to completely reinstall the OS and this problem appeared.

[sir fer]

Something else you may try is getting the tar from adobe and putting the untarred libflashplayer.so file into both /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins.

You can also do this with the flashplayer-mozilla.so file if you get it from debian-mulitmedia

[qyron]

Actually, removing swf-mozilla solved the problem!

Can't understand why the heck the system didn't purged that package by itself, but no matter.

Thanks for the help, everyone!