added Shockwave to Debian

Update (01/24/2007): Adobe has released Version 9 for Linux. I just installed it on a friends laptop using the tar file and everything went very easy. Iceweasel restarted with flash working and there were no headaches.

Below is my previous post about adding Shockwave to Debian. Most likely the file that you wget is no longer available.

– Original Post –

I tried to go to transformersmovie.com in Firefox, but it wouldn’t work because I didn’t have flash installed. The regular installer I found was old and might not work on the new sites, so after a bit of searching I found a post by Jim Popovitch in the ALE mailing list.

I made some minor changes to his directions (I believe he is using Ubuntu Linux) and thought I would post them here:

open a terminal as a regular user

type the following command to download the beta plugin from Adobe:

wget http://www.adobe.com/go/fp9_update_b1_installer_linuxplugin

When it is finished you will have to extract the files (basically unzipping them) so type the following:

tar -xvzf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz

When that is finished extracting the files to a folder you can type:

sudo chown flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so

(which will change the ownership of the file to your login name)

and finally you type this:

mv flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Which moves the file to your local user Mozilla plugins directory so it can be used by your browsers.

If Firefox is open then close it down and restart it, then go back to the transformers movie site and see if it works.

If it will work there you shouldn’t have problems with it any other place.

~ by Preston on November 11, 2006.