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How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian EtchHi all, Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path. This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components, 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy. or 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to Good luck, Reid -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch
Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
> installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
> you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
>
> The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
> you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain:
>
> WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
>
> This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
> which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can:
>
> 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
>
> or
>
> 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)
>
>
I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
it was happy.
--
Kent West
Westing Peacefully
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How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch
Hello Lists,
is there a 86_64 version ?
Jerome
Kent West wrote:
> Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
>> installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
>> you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
>>
>> The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
>> you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain:
>>
>> WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
>>
>> This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
>> which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can:
>>
>> 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
>> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)
>>
>>
>
> I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
> it was happy.
>
>
--
Jerome BENOIT
jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net
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How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch
On 17 Jan 2007, Kent West wrote:
> Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup
> > installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare
> > you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2.
> >
> > The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when
> > you enter the correct path, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, it will complain:
> >
> > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
> >
> > This is because it is looking for /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components,
> > which does not exist (and which Flash does not apparently need). You can:
> >
> > 1. Create the directory. The installer will be happy.
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2. Skip the (lame) installer and copy libflashplayer.so to
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins yourself. (I haven't tried this.)
> >
> >
>
> I just fed the path "/usr/lib/iceweasel" to the installer program, and
> it was happy.
>
I just install flashplugin-nonfree and it installed the Adobe flash
plugin. The result was I could no longer access the BBC TV sites.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell -
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http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews,
on-line books and sceptical articles)
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How to install Flash Player
hi guys
i'm a fedora user but it should be the same. the solution is you have to find out how this firefox folder is called in your case. browse /usr/lib/ there i have a folder called firefox-2.0.0.5. So i entered /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/ and it worked fine.
gl
lejazzeur
Re: How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch
Hi Reid,
thanks for the tip , the first option worked for me
;)
Cheers,
Rui Branco