If you're still using skype, even tho you are sick and fucking tired of skype making shady deals with other providers and not letting you get the compiled 64bit (they provide you with a 32bit binary, even tho they say its for a 64bit machine), and you've installed all the relative ia32-* compatability libraries, and you are getting various odd errors like skype not finding libstdc++.so.6 then, i recommend strace's to sort it out..

not to mention the linux version being at 2.1 and windows at 4!!

Alright, it IS possible to get flash working, it's not THAT hard.

heres the s3kr3t - you need to use the nspluginwrapper util that lets you run stuff on a different architecture (not platform)


$ apt-cache search nspluginwrapper
nspluginwrapper - A wrapper to run Netscape plugins on other architectures


Grab the library .tar.gz from this adobe url

extract it, you'll find a .so in there, just move that flashlibrary.so to /usr/lib/

and then just run

Got a new laptop, my old acer's screen died after a couple of months of backpacking (including leaving the laptop under my tent at metal festivals, in my backpack at the front of 75000 crowd mosh pot etc) and rigorous work, i must say, they are pretty good value considering it supplies me with my yearly income, socialising, projects, hobbies etc.

Looks like the mysql system tables were missing on my fresh install of Debian Lenny on my Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.

just run mysql_install_db , after this you'll need to get your mysql debian credentials back in line, these are usually stored under /etc/mysql/ (this is so mysqladmin etc will work again)


/usr/bin/mysql_install_db
WARNING: The host 'nine' could not be looked up with resolveip.
This probably means that your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible
with this binary MySQL version. The MySQL daemon, mysqld, should work