All good you might thing, well think again.  I know people love linux and I love parts of linux for example mythtv and all the open source stuff that is out there.  The parts that I hate about linux are the ease of getting even the basic things to work.  When I performed the dpkg install I got an error because the adobe package had a dependence on libcurl3.  Knowing I’d seen this before on my tv box I knew it was not easy to get around.  So rather than trying to hack the solution I thought I would try and find another route.

The other route eventually turned up in a great little 10 things to do after installing ubuntu.

http://linuxchronicles.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-810/

I’d just googled to re-find the link and I’m worried about the number of 10 things to do after installing ubuntu… Thankfully there is another package for flash that can be done from apt-get.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree