I seem to have hit the following: My client cannot run an up-to-date Flashplayer on Linux. If she insists on running Flashplayer, she can run an out of date Flashplayer in her current Debian system (if I can get a functional one installed) or she can go out, buy and install Windows. She will then be able to run an up-to-date Flashplayer. Or she can buy a new computer.
It is a sad day when Windows is in any way better for a legacy computer than Linux; one of whose strengths used to be how good it was for legacy computers. It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable proposition for the desktop. I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by aptitude? Lisi