Firefox/Iceweasel plugins (NewB)

[dcn2376]

Hi

I Have newly installed debian etch 4.0 to expand my knowledge of linux and hopefully expand its use throughout my other systems. So far i'm very impressed and want to get it fully working for some of the basic multimedia and web functions. When I use iceweasel/firefox, out of the box it doesn't have shockwave, flash, java, window-real player-quicktime plugins. When I download the "Linux versions" from the relevant links i.e. Adobe etc the default destination 'package manager??' says file extension not supported and I really want to know how do i install these updates so that I can run linux and not miss the ease and functionality of windows.

Please help

Many thanks in advance...

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Open Terminal and execute this :

su -
apt-get update
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Restart FireFox, type about: plugins ( without space in : and p ) in Address box and check if it lists something like this

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

[dcn2376]

sorry for the delay in getting back but i've not had many opportunities to try it out,

I used the apt-get update and it seemed to update ok and when I ran the plugin-nonfree I got the following msg
debian:/home/dean# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package flashplugin-nonfree has no installation candidate
debian:/home/dean#


have I missed a step?
like a download from adobe if so which one do i choose there are 3 different linux versions?

many thanks so far

dean

[coopstah13]

post contents of /etc/apt/sources.list file

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[dcn2376]

ebian:/home/dean# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main
#

deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main


deb Index of /debian etch main
deb-src Index of /debian etch main

deb Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main
deb-src Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main
debian:/home/dean#