Installing Adobe Flashplayer 10 in Freespire

[Yardbird]

I am a complete beginner but I have installed Freespire on a PC of mine. Everything works okay: BBC iPlayer, You Tube, Internet Radio except Deezer which, it seems, requires the installation of Adobe Flash Player 10. I've followed the recommendations of counteless articles in the Internet without success and my head is now spinning. Can someone please tell me the step by step process please bearing in mind that I really don't know what I'm doing. For example there seem to be three input screens for instructions: Shell, Linux Console and Root Shell . I don't even know which one I should be using. Frequently my failed efforts result in a message saying unknown file and directory. When I download Adobe tar.gz I can't see where it's going. I tried extracting to the Desktop and that produces a file ending in .so. But what ever I do nothing works. Hope someone can help me please at the keystroke by keystroke level.

[reed9]

First off, Freespire is no longer an active project and hasn't been updated for ages. I really recommend using a different distro. Linux Mint is nice for new people, and flash is included out of the box.

Any time something refers to the console or terminal, and usually shell, they're referring to pretty much the same thing. If there are instructions asking you to enter in commands, you just need to open up any terminal program. No idea what Freespire has installed, but common ones include xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, terminal, lxterminal, roxterm, urxvt, and rxvt. There are many others. Or if you have not yet started a graphical interface and are staring at a black screen that looks something like

user@desktop#

A root terminal just means you have logged into the terminal as the root user or are using a program called sudo, which grants your user various privileges usually reserved for the root user.

To log in from a terminal/console, the usually method is

su -

Freespire is based on Debian, so the easiest thing to try is to install the .deb file on the adobe site, save it to your home directory, and then do

su -c 'dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb'

(I think that is the name of the file.)

Or if Freespire uses sudo, not sure if they do, then

sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

[Yardbird]

Thank you for your reply. I tried your suggestions but without success. Once again it says no such file or directory. When the download from Adobe ends a screen appears headed, "install_flash_player_10_LINUX.deb in /temp - KArchiver," and there are three files listed.
So, I guess it's not saving to my home directory in the way that you recommended but I don't know how to do that.

[reed9]

What are you using to download it? All web browsers I know allow you to set where you want to download files.

But you can change the path to wherever the file is. If it's in /temp, then

sudo dpkg -i /temp/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

[reed9]

I should note that /temp is not normally a directory. You probably meant /tmp?

[Yardbird]

Thank you for your reply. I tried that but with the following result. what have I done wrongly please?


richard@richard:~$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
(Reading database ... 74172 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adobe-flashplugin 10.0.45.2-1 (using .../install_flash_player_10_linux.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adobe-flashplugin ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobe-flashplugin:
adobe-flashplugin depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.18.0-0ubuntu1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.4.2-0ubuntu1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5); however:
Version of libfreetype6 on system is 2.2.1-5ubuntu1.1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.10.11-0ubuntu3.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.5); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.16.2-0ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
adobe-flashplugin
richard@richard:~$

[reed9]

adobe-flashplugin depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.18.0-0ubuntu1.
adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.4.2-0ubuntu1.

You didn't do anything wrong. As I said, Freespire is a dead project and hasn't been updated in forever. The latest flashplayer depends on newer version of some libraries, which just aren't present on Freespire.

My advice is to use a current and supported distro.

[Yardbird]

Thank you for your help - much appreciated. I'll try Linux Mint as you recommended.