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[taimatsu]

I still have net access! So, a quick geek question - I'm using iceweasel on Debian Etch, and I thought I had Flash working but I apparently don't. I am trying to install nspluginwrapper, but I can't work out what the heck to put in my sources.list file to make that happen. Tips welcome. I'm about to head out for work-related stuff, so I'll be back later. I need to spend this evening getting deeply involved with my sewing machine and a bucket of dye...

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[skibbley.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Have you tried using the flash rpm and "alien" to import it?

[diffrentcolours]

Your sources.list should say something like:

deb     http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian     etch main

Change the end of the line to say "main contrib non-free". Then update your package list (aptitude update) and install flashplugin-nonfree.

Of course, Flash is Evil, Bad and Wrong.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I am trying to install nspluginwrapper

I never bother with that; I'd rather just install the 32-bit version of the browser so that plugins work properly (there's a rumour that the Java plugin doesn't work properly in nspluginwrapper anyway). The distros don't really help with this, but you could just download the official Firefox and unpack it in /usr/local.

Sorry, that probably wasn't much help.

[diffrentcolours]

Especially since Lucy's not running a 64-bit system :)

[imc.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, then just ignore me. :-)

I think a wrong end of a stick has been had somewhere, because nspluginwrapper isn't necessary on a 32-bit system (although I note that Fedora 9 has it in both the 64-bit and 32-bit distributions for some reason).