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flashplugin-nonfree package

youtube flash plugin issues.

Asked by davidzaq1

I went to look at several music videos on youtube. Mostly just to listen to a song, not so much to watch the video.
When I clicked on the video, I got a message the the video could not be viewed because I was missing a flash pluggin.
A box came up and said, to look for available pluggins, click here. I did but nthing happened happened. Is this a problem with Ubuntu 12.03 or is it a problem with youtube? Any way to fix this?

Thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

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

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#2

Please open the Software Center, enter "ubuntu-restricted-extras" into the search box and install the package that shows up in the result. It will install all kind of proprietary stuff you might need to get certain things working.

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#3

Here is the results of the command listed above.

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux roo 3.2.0-38-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:18:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rc flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.270ubuntu0.12.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#4

I opened the software center and looked at the Ubuntu restricted extras. I have them installed.
The only other package available there was xubuntu restricted extras

Thank you

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

The line
rc flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.270ubuntu0.12.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
shows that flashplugin-installer is NOT installed on your system

Please open a terminal and issue the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

and copy/paste all output into this question document as done before.

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#6

Thank you for your reply but I do not understand.

I know how to run the commands above but what am I supposed to copy and past the output information into?

You said copy the output to this question document.....How do I do this? I am not sure how to do this.

Thank you for the help.
David

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#7

This solved my problem.

Thank you