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firefox-3.0 package

how to install flashplugin

Asked by Peter

I have tried to install the flashplugin for Firefox several times at different times of the day but the download always stalls and eventually gives up so I have got the
adobe-flashplugin_10.0.22.87.orig.tar.gz
file using Firefox downthemall addon. When it stalled I paused and resumed it. My Dialup has never been so slow.
I know the file destination is /var/cache/flashplugin-installer.
What terminal command will use the file to install flash?

Thanks

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#1

I should have added it is for 9.04
Does it stall due to a 9.04 bug ?
 Firefox gets to websites very quickly.

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Janith Sampath Bandara (janith) said : 		#2

try this
close firefox and give this terminal command

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Reinstall downthemall addon.
janith

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#3

Thanks Janith, but I already have the flashplugin file which unzips to libflashplayer.so
What should I put it in so all users have access to flash?

Thanks
Peter

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zebsdad (zebsdad) said : 		#4

Janith:

I copied your script and entered in terminal.
Worked perfectly.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#5

AS I said at the start the conventional method of getting flash with synaptic or apt kept timing out and updates are very much slower loading in 9.04 with dialup than they were in 8.04.
There is nothing wrong with Firefox or the downthemall addon.
That was the only way I could get Flash on my system.
I have copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and now it is working well.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#6

One last thing. I changed the update download mirror and the updates come in many times faster, so there is no problem with 9.04 after all.

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benny (b3ny) said : 		#7

benny@b3nY:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for benny:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package flashplugin-nonfree