Re: [Hampshire] flashplayer install

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Author: cjl
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] flashplayer install
Quoting cjl@???:

> Quoting Mike Burrows <testermike@???>:
>
>> Some stuff here might be useful: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
>> Possibly see if you can force a reinstall with the
>> update-flashplugin-nonfree utility? Maybe without the browser
>> running.... Chris
>> Thanks Chris. Could you please post the command line code for aptitude
>> please? I couldn't find a package that related to that mentioned on the
>> debian page, when i tried this a few days ago.
>>
>> I have contrib non-free in my sources.list
>
>
> I just did (as root):
>
> apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>
> It's possible the package name is different, so you could try:
> apt-cache search flash | grep Adobe
>
> That might hint at an alternative package name, if flashplugin-nonfree
> doesn't exist.


It might be worth checking if you have gnash installed, too. If the
gnash plugin is being picked up in preference to flash, it might not
work.

Chris



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