Hi Folks,
I want to install a standalone FlashPlayer on a Debian Etch 4.0 system (regularly updated), just as I once did in the increasingly distant past on a RedHat-9 system!
I have the FlashPlayer plugin working nicely in Iceweasel, but I also want the standalone version.
Adobe's FlashPlayer web-pages do not seem to have the standalone version for Linux available (the one page where it is alleged that it is available as part of a "developer" package has no content).
Question 1: Can anyone point me to a site where it IS available?
A possible alternative might be Gnash, the OSS development of a flash player.
Having entered
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main
(as recommended on a forum that came up on Google) into /etc/apt/sources.list, I can search for 'gnash' in the synaptic package manager and find a selection [A] of gnash and related packages.
However, If I attempt to mark gnash for installation, I get [B] To be installed libcurl3-gnutls and is I then mark that for installation I get gnash: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed
even though gnash-common was listed at [A] above. So I go back to the [A] listing, and mark gnash-common. I then get To be installed libcurl3-gnutls just as at [B]. And when I try to mark this again, I get:
gnash-common: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed Depends: libboost-date-time1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: libboost-thread1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: base-files (>=4.0.1~) but 4 is to be installed
So I'm right royally going round in circles. GNASH GNASH GNASH!!!
Question 2: Can anyone suggest a way out of all this? Either a pukka Adobe standalone for Linux, or an escape from the Gnash labyrinth?
With thanks, Ted.
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