I thank you for the link but I am wondering why I have to use a Google Browser to obtain Flash. I do not like the thought of using Google Chrome as a main web browser on a Linux system. 

Do you have any thoughts about running Firefox web browser? I read an article on Tech Trends but some of it talks of 'symbolic links'. 

http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1435.html

Have you successfully run Debian 'Wheezy' with flashplayer installed in Mozilla Firefox before? 

I know I am asking for your help but I think it's a valid issue and I appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you

Paul G

P.S. I like to think of it short and simple userwide for the systems users to have Adobe flashplayer installed would symbolic links only affect my account if I follow this article? I again am sorry for asking so many questions.

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:51:49 -0600
From: jus at krytosvirus.com
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'

An alternative could be to just use Google Chrome (note, not chromium) as Google Chrome has a flash plugin built into the browser, unlike chromium. 
Maybe it will solve your needs? http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-google-chrome.html


-------- Original message --------
From: paul g  
Date:02/27/2014  8:30 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: TCLUG Mailing List  
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy' 

Thank you for responding so quickly. With the Debian Wheezy and Java extension plugin I have installed in Iceweasel it sems to work very well with information on Youtube but not Gmail or Hotmail login screen. At one point yesterday I had the shockwave flash plugin showing up in Iceweasel then. I believe youtube would not work. I think there may be a code conflict of some sort. 

As I know I am wondering about this initial installation report of->

paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:





  konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.





After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...





Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...





ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc
More information might be available at:
  http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

It only shows up the first time after everything is purged out etc. from apt. 

Should I perhaps try to look at setting a symbolic link or something of that nature? I do understand that Adobe Flash is not pure GNU. But Adobe flash works so well on Linux Mint and Ubuntu so easily for a noob like me. I am just curious and I thank you for your help.

Paul G



From: stuporglue at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:05:49 -0600
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Installing Adobe Flash on Debian 'Wheezy'

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:18 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote:


adobe has stopped supporting flash on Linux. Even if you can find a working older plugin, it won't  have the ability to handle DRM stuff like Netflix. 



I don't have Netflix, but the old plugin version is still works for Hulu, Amazon Prime and YouTube.  



The  current "best" solution is to install pipelight -- which sets up a modified wine instance that allows Linux browsers to use native windows versions of plugins.  It is far from perfect, but it will get you a fully functional flash environment -- albeit a slightly buggy one. 


Bleh. Reminds me of the bad old days of using NDISWrapper for Wifi. I can't remember the last time I even saw someone asking about NDISWrapper -- I'm glad that's behind us finally. Hopefully some day this pipelight hack will be equally unnecessary. 



--
Michael Moore

 


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote:



On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:








I am having some 'issues' trying to install Adobe flash-player on Debian 'Wheezy' 
running:

Kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64

Gnome 3

Iceweasel 24.3.0

I have successfully installed openjdk- and icedtea-






I have read quite a few forums etc.



Below are the content's of my /etc/apt/sources.list

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main






# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20131013-23:23]/ wheezy main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:





# deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main





deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main





# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free





deb http://lug.mtu.edu/debian wheezy-backports main

I have run the command: sudo apt-get update

then have run the command: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree      






then receive output:

paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:





  konqueror-nsplugins ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree hal
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/20.1 kB of archives.





After this operation, 181 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 143339 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_1%3a3.2_amd64.deb) ...





Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:3.2) ...





ERROR: gpg failed to import /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/pubkey.asc
More information might be available at:
  http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer








Here are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls -lah
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 26 03:30 ..




-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19K Jul 25  2013 libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   39 Feb 26 02:09 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K Jul 27  2012 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
paul at debian:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ 






Thank you for any help.
 		 	   		  

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Does it work in the Chromium browser?






I haven't 
been able to get Flash working in Firefox on Debian (64 bit) for some 
time. It does work in Chromium though. I haven't spent much time on it 
though since I don't use Flash all that much. 

--
Michael Moore 


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