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Some one sent me a message as to how to fix the flash problem

Asked by Lynne Stevens

About a week or so ago some one sent a message as to how to fix the flash problem . . and it worked very good But since I was having MAJOR PROBLEMS with 11.04 . . I deleted it completely AGAIN for 3rd and LAST TIME and went back to 10.10 getting firefox to play all the different movies / flash movies . . . One site will work and the next one does not Youtube works and Ron Hazelton does not ! . . This time I will print it out to save it ( the fix ) . . It was a gob of Sudo commands !
. . Problem with 11.04 it called thumb drives USB0 / 1,2,3,4 ect . . and I could not copy from or to and my USB item and my backup drive haha said I was not owner and could not copy stuff or use it ( ended up making about 10 DVD+R's full of stuff doc's and downloads plus pictures and video's to save them before formatting the drive ) Said all things belonged to Root . . I am not going beyond 10.10 this is the LAST STABLE version you have made ! ! . . 11.04 and 11.11 has the funny floating graphics and it take to long to get to a program . . The Classic look is 99.9 % better and only available in 11.04, I can get to a program and have it running long before the 11.XX can get to the program open let alone get it running . . The 80 year old man I put on Linux and he UP GRADED by accident and I made it back to the Classic look for him in 11.04 as he was crying about the floating junk when he came over to see me . . Told him DO NOT UP GRADE any more just UP DATE . . ONLY UPDATE ! !

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try:

sudo apt-get install xfce4

Log off then log into the xfce session. It works a LOT like Gnome2. Is that any better?

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#2

what is the Xfce4 going to do ? I did a search in the package manager and from what I read it is of no help in fixing the Flash Problem in firefox . . I still get install Flash in about 1/2 of the places I go to and the flash installer was added and even went to
Adobe flash and it said I had to install but it is is installed . . Something is not installed or the program is a bad installation

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Itwill fix youor gripe with unity.

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

Thanks

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#4

Ok here is the out put of the line
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux jackie-Aspire-3100 2.6.35-32-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 13 21:04:12 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
ii browser-plugin-gnash 0.8.8-5ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives
ii flashplugin-installer 11.1.102.62ubuntu0.10.10.2 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii gnash 0.8.8-5ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
ii gnash-common 0.8.8-5ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Common files/libraries

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

sudo apt-get --purge remove browser-plugin-gnash flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-install

Maverick is EOL (End Of Life, no more support or updates) in April, so I suggest you upgrade to a newer release soon. My advise would be to wipe Maverick out and install a clean install of Precise which is LTS (5 years supported).

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#6

It was a RE FORMAT and re install 10.10 wiped everything so this was in updates added by the update manager . . And NO not going to UPGRADE been there 3 times and 3 times it has screwed up something so bad as not being able to access my thumb drives or my back up drive to copy and keep junk on for access . . When ever you fix that problem I might upgrade . . It kept telling me I was not the owner of the files or the drive ( I AM THE only ONE USING this laptop the administrator / user I make me sign in to access this computer )

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

If you format and reinstall, that won't be an issue.

Do the commands I gave help?

Why do you not have a regular backup? Then you wouldn't need to mess with thumb drives, also you will have your data if your hard drive fails....

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#8

AHUM you do not take files to some other places like a ABI word file to another computer or a print place like office max ( I put ABI in all of the computers I have switched over and away from windows ) Or use them for keeping things on ? 11.04 said the back up drive was not mine and I could not copy or backup files to it . . also said I could not delete files from there . . And you want me to use 11.XX not again for a long while . .
I do not like the floating icons in the least little bit major pain in the bottom to get to a program if it is not in that floating crap !

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

How is that related to flash?

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#10

As to what the USB problem has to do with flash I have no Ideal just was a problem with the 11.04 . .
But your SUDO APT-GET commands got rid of most of the problem . . I went to the Synaptic Package manager and typed in Adobe flash and got a dozen answers but I got it fixed now I can see movies even in House Calls by Ron Hazelton