How to install Adobe Flash player on Debian Lenny



 

The free flash player that comes packaged with Debian Lenny is not quite as good as the Adobe Flash Player. If you'd like to learn how to install the Adobe Flash Player on a Debian Lenny system, then read on. It's easy.

Enable backports by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Import the key from the backports.org archive

apt-get install debian-backports-keyring

Run apt-get update

apt-get update

Install the Adobe Flash Player with one of the following commands depending on whether you like to use apt or aptitude

apt-get -t lenny-backports install flashplugin-nonfree

aptitude -t lenny-backports install flashplugin-nonfree

Restart your web browser and then test your Adobe Flash installation by watching a a flash movie. You should notice that the Adobe Flash Player has been installed on your Debian Linux system.


tripnixon, 06-09-11 09:04:
how it worked for me...


~~~
sources.list

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.6 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100905-11:24]/ lenny main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.6 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100905-11:24]/ lenny main

deb http://distro.ibiblio.org/debian/ lenny main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://distro.ibiblio.org/debian/ lenny main

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

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main

# Opera
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera lenny non-free

# Debian Multimedia
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

# Backports
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main non-free
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports-sloppy main non-free

~~~
apt-get install opera

~~~~
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_2.8.3_i386.deb

~~~
apt-get -f install libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libcurl3-gnutls

start opera and poof - latest version and latest flash

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