Fix adobe flash player on Debian amd64
Squeeze/Sid (testing) to work again
My adobe flash player 10.0 on my Debian running on top of amd64
suddenly stopped working. I have noticed the problem yesterday
attempting to open
youtube the
youtube video player written in flash showed me a blank page and a
message appeared that I should upgrade my flash player to adobe
flash player 10.1
My firest try to fix it was through a reinstall of my current
installed
flashplugin-nonfree with:
noah:~# apt-get install --reinstall
flashplugin-nonfree
This command returned an output like:
Check
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer for instructions
So I followed the suggestion, directly to the
Debian Testing 'Squeeze' amd64 section
Therein it's explained that currently the pointed solution is not
supported by Adobe but anyways it would work.
To make it work the necessary steps to be followed are:
1. Install fakeroot bintuils nspluginwrapper and
ia32-libs
noah:~# apt-get install fakeroot binutils nspluginwrapper
ia32-libs
2. Download and run this script with a non privileged
user:
http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/ia32-libs-workaround-499043-squeeze.sh
noah:~# su hipo
noah:~$ sh
ia32-libs-workaround-499043-squeeze.sh
3. Install the generated package
ia32-libs-workaround-499043_0.0.1+squeeze1_amd64.deb by the
previously executed
ia32-libs-workaround-499043-squeeze.sh
noah:~# dpkg -i
ia32-libs-workaround-499043_0.0.1+squeeze1_amd64.deb
4. Download and install the new version of
flashplugin-nonfree
noah:~# wget
http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_10.1.53.64.1_amd64.deb
noah:~# dpkg -i
flashplugin-nonfree_10.1.53.64.1_amd64.deb
That shoud resolve the issues with flash videos on
Linux noah
2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1 04:34:03 UTC 2010 x86_64
GNU/Linux and other Debian Squeeze / Sid GNU Linux amd64 work
statations.
Enjoy your flash player working once again :)