Debian Squeeze 64-bits, Iceweasel and flashplugin

Éverton Arruda

I’ve installed Debian Squeeze 64-bits, the current testing version of Debian, with KDE4 and i wasn’t able to watch YouTube (and similar websites) videos. I’ve noticed that the default SWF decoder library is swfdec[0], and i thought that installing the Flash Player from Adobe would solve the problem. Fortunately i was right, but i found out that Adobe Flash Player does not support 64-bit Linux[1].

Searching about it i ended up in a page, on Debian Wiki, with a workaround that worked for me. Just follow the instructions in http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

[0] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/
[1] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html

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