Installing Flash on debian

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This article is for people running lenny and getting flash installed for your browsers.

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Edit your sources

Configure your system to use lenny-backports by adding this line to your sources.list

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Update your packages

apt-get update

if you get a keyring error

W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

then do the following

apt-get install debian-backports-keyring

now run update command again.

Install the Flash package

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

How to update

/usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
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