Flash player/Youtube may be the deal breaker...

[Rebopper]

Hello, I am new to Linux and wonder if I am alone with this problem.

Currently running Debian(lenny) and cannot watch any Youtube or flash videos (including Pandora and Playlist, they never even load fully). I get about 5 seconds into a vid and it freezes my browser, (both epiphany and iceweasel) I am still able to hear the audio (sometimes the audio is scrambled as well) but the video will be frozen along with the browser itself and I must force quit. Can this be solved? It's kinda the whole point of having internet; I need entertainment and lulz.

Cheers.

[smolloy]

Hmmm.... Flash can be a problem on Linux. Especially on 64 bit distros -- are you running 32 or 64 bit?

Do you know which Flash player you installed? I could never get Gnash to work, and normally use Adobe Flash player (which is a shame since I kinda detest Adobe).

[Rebopper]

I'm running 32bit system (pretty sure as this is a single cpu system). One thing, I can't figure out if either gnash or adobe is installed. Whatever it came with is what I'm using, I never installed anything. I've looked through synaptic package manager and didn't see either one.

[smolloy]

uname -a

That will tell you if you're running 32 or 64 bit. Look for something that says x86 (which means 32 bit) or x64_64 (which means 64 bit).

Here's a link that might help you out with flash on Debian.

[Rebopper]

uname -a, gives me:

Linux debian 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:46:13 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree, gives me

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

[smolloy]

Weird. Do you have the non-free repositories enabled?

[Rebopper]

I added non-free to each line of /etc/apt/sources.list on the first day.
That's the way, correct?

[smolloy]

Can you post the contents of that file?

[Rebopper]

# 
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD Binar$

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD Binary-$

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

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

deb http://apt.wicd.net/ debian extras

[smolloy]

It looks ok to me. Add multiverse to those lines as well and then run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Does that help?