Grumble grumble upgrades
Jon upgraded my laptop for security reasons. I tend to like to keep things as they are until something is broken. I'm behind his firewall, what could go wrong? right?
Anyway, the upgrade seems to have blown away flash, and now YouTube and numerous other web sites just don't work. Most sites using flash assume that everyone's got it, so they don't even tell you "you must download flash to see this site" now. I did make it to Adobe's site and download the .tar.gz and followed the instructions, but flash is still missing from my browser. I couldn't find it from Firefox/Iceweasel's plug-in directory, and every time I quit Iceweasel it leaves a process or two still running and won't start up again until I manually kill them.
One website I found recommended installing a flash plugin system wide through debian-nonfree, so I fired up dselect. Or tried to. It appears that dselect is no longer installed on my system. What's up with that? apt-get may be installed, but that's only useful if you know what you're getting in advance, not if you just feel like browsing the list of available packages.
Grump grump grump.
Jon, feel free to respond with appropriate instructions. Right now I've spent too much time on this problem. [Jon and Peter are in Fresno again this weekend so I can finish my work project.]
--Beth
Anyway, the upgrade seems to have blown away flash, and now YouTube and numerous other web sites just don't work. Most sites using flash assume that everyone's got it, so they don't even tell you "you must download flash to see this site" now. I did make it to Adobe's site and download the .tar.gz and followed the instructions, but flash is still missing from my browser. I couldn't find it from Firefox/Iceweasel's plug-in directory, and every time I quit Iceweasel it leaves a process or two still running and won't start up again until I manually kill them.
One website I found recommended installing a flash plugin system wide through debian-nonfree, so I fired up dselect. Or tried to. It appears that dselect is no longer installed on my system. What's up with that? apt-get may be installed, but that's only useful if you know what you're getting in advance, not if you just feel like browsing the list of available packages.
Grump grump grump.
Jon, feel free to respond with appropriate instructions. Right now I've spent too much time on this problem. [Jon and Peter are in Fresno again this weekend so I can finish my work project.]
--Beth