Thanks, Richard. I'll give that a whirl. Btw, I knew someone would ask me why I was installing it.
Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lewis" richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Flashplayer installation Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:07:45 +0100
On Monday 01 October 2007 13:37:41 Bev Nicolson wrote:
Having trawled through the Ubuntu forums I came across this which looked like it would work to install Adobe Flashplayer (on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06LTS.)
Are you trying to upgrade to a later version of Flash?
One possible method may be to download the .deb from Debian unstable which is version 9 and try installing that instead:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree
Once you've downloaded it, go $ sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2_i386.deb
and if it complains about dependencies you could try forcing it: $ sudo dpkg --force-depends -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2_i386.deb
Otherwise, regarding the .tar.gz file from from Adobe: I notice it has a script in it called "flashplayer-installer". You could try running it:
$ install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
Finally, also check out:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
and
http://www.tola.me.uk/blog/2007/09/21/flash_is_killing_the_web
Cheers, Richard
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