After having a X server and a window manager up and running on my eeepc’s Debian 5.0 fresh installation it was about time to start surfing the web… One of my favourite websites is Youtube. As I tried to watch a clip I was barried with a message saying that would need to enable javascript on the browser or download the latest flash plugin for it. Then I started looking in the repositories for something with flashplugin and found the package flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound.
- # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
Installed it but nothing.. I couln’d stand without visiting Youtube! Then i decided to download the flashplugin from Adobe’s website.
Still with the package from the repo installed I’ve downloaded Adobe’s plugin. It was extracted:
- $ tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
Copied to a place where don’t bother me:
- # cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/iceweasel
- # cd /usr/lib/iceweasel
The previous plugin from the package was unlinked:
- # unlink libflashsupport.so
And the new plugin was linked using the same linkname from the previous plugin:
- # ln -s libflashplayer.so libflashsupport.so
And finally I could watch on Youtube at will…
