[Gllug] Re: Installing Flash player on Debian

[Peter Joanes]

On Friday 03 June 2005 22:08, Mark Preston wrote:
>  tar -xzvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
>  cd install_flash_player_7_linux/
>  ./flashplayer-installer
>
> Works for me.

I would like distributions to work to avoid this. I don't want to run an 
installer on my system and hopefully I won't have to because it's easy enough 
to integrate most programs (even proprietary) with the native package 
management scheme.
I want to be able to find out which package a file belongs to, i.e. in this 
case, like this:
# equery b /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/flashplayer.xpt in *... ]
net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25

I think most distributions have some equivalent of this, and alternatively I'd 
prefer just a tarball, so I don't feel that "./flashplayer-installer" works 
for me.


Cheers,
-	Pete.
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