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firefox-3.0 package

the x64 flash player instructions didn't work on a fresh install of Hardy Heron x64

Asked by stuck on 2008-12-24

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Just followed the instructions for installing the 64 bit adobe flash plugin placed in in /home/username/.mozilla/plugins as well as, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin
everytime I restart firefox I can't see the flash player in the plugin menu

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 23 16:02:10 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

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For:: Ubuntu firefox-3.0 Edit question

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Last query:: 2008-12-24

Last reply:: 2009-05-03

This question was originally filed as bug #311061.

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stuck (stuckwi) said on 2008-12-24:

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said on 2009-05-03:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Thanks!

If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:

1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories

We are closing this bug report and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .