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Thanks, The above article is Very helpful.If you stick with Debian (for the moment) you could find the script SMXI helpful. It is quite simple to install and use. If can, in turn, install a whole bunch of useful stuff - Adobe Flash Player included. http://smxi.org/
Of minor interest might be https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QPwMWJdJq2hjkpoGEuHS56aosCxyTiiH4CWkDNFi5Wo/preview