In the Debian popularity-contest numbers, the adobe-flashplugin package the second most popular used package that is missing in Debian. The sixth most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.

I have 42 updates this morning between the two computers on which I run Debian. These include a new kernel and updates for things ranging from cpio and tar to texlive to apt to openssl to gtk2.

swfdec-gnome is a very good Tool to play SWF files (Macromedia Flash) on GNOME. This package contains programs to integrate Flash functionality into the GNOME desktop.

On December 4th 2007, adobe introduced a new version of Flash. This version uses a new specification to embed plugin content. csant has a nice writeup about that. The problem here is that Opera’s stable branch (9.27 at the time of writing) doesn’t support this new way of embedding plugins.

If you run Etch you will want to use backport.org

This How-to will show you how to add the Flash Player to Debian

Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers breakthrough Web experiences to over 98% of Internet users.