I got it running, finally :)

Thanks to debianforum.de my flashplayer is working now :).

The whole story: The (Macromedia) Adobe Flashplayer and the plugin for Firefox (Iceweasel on Debian) is not available for amd64 architecture.

So you have to trick it out a little. Here’s how it worked (this works as well for Iceweasel):

- At first you have to install “alien”
apt-get install alien

- Then you need to download the plugin and the viewer from
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper#downloads

- After that edit the files using alien -d on both of them

- Now here’s a list how to proceed:

dpkg -i nspluginwrapper*.deb

apt-get install linux32 ia32-libs-gtk gsfonts-x11

(Note: as Debian etch got stable, the package ia32-libs-gtk is no longer available. I just downloaded it from HERE and installed it.)

Then download the flash plugin from a i386 mirror.
I got one from here:
http://gulmer.funmrd.gov.ve/debian/pool/contrib/f/flashplugin-nonfree/?N=D

dpkg -i –force-architecture flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1_i386.deb

dpkg -L flashplugin-nonfree|grep so | xargs rm -f

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Here’s where the entry on debianforum.de endet, but someone postet further information, which is good ( :) ) because so far it didn’t work for me (using Iceweasel)

The next step would be to create symlinks (ln -s) in ~./mozilla/plugins (if the directory doesn’t exist, fell free to create it!) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.so and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Restart Iceweasel and Flash should be working fine :)

Source: www.debianforum.de

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Update: 11th May: Okay, I think that OpenOffice issue is solved and doesn’t really have anything to do with this FlashPlayer thing ;)
The problem seemed to be the fglrx driver I installed. I used the package built by the ATI installer, which requires libstdc++5 ! And it seems as if OpenOffice stops working right after libstdc++5 is installed! So I used the package provided by Debian non-free, and ran module-assistant prepare, which updates the whole thing, so it’s using libstdc++6 afterwards (at least I think so, from what it was prompting ;) ). After running module-assistant update and the rest that is said here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian_Installation_Guide ; the fglrx is working AND OpenOffice is working. :)

Errormessage:

max@debian:~$ openoffice
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 254: 8987 Gleitkomma-Ausnahme "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

** (process:8971): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...


Update: 28th May: So, I tested the whole Flash on amd64 thing for a little while now, and it’s working out pretty much okay. I’m still having some problems while e.g. watching lots of youtube vids in a row, as the flash player stops working from time to time (you just can’t see any of the flash things anymore). I didn’t get around this yet, but what works for me right now is, just when the flashplayer stops working, I switch to epiphany browser… and if it stops working there as well after a while, I switch back to iceweasel ;)
But this only keeps happening if I really watch a lot stuff in flash in a row. I’ll post here if I find a solution ;)

Update: 2nd June: If I forgot to say so… PLEASE don’t do this shown above unless you know what you’re doing. As I figured out, the procedure can cause some problems updating the system. Like destroying the software index list etc… didn’t find a fix for that yet.

Update: 18th August: Soooo I’ve got some news. There is an official flashplugin-nonfree package available for amd64 architecture (of course you have to add non-free sources to sources.list). As I’m using Debian SID right now, I don’t know whether it’s as well available for lenny or etch, but you can get it from backports.org. Simply installing that using apt worked perfectly for me!