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flashplugin-nonfree package

get flash to work in Ubuntu 9.04/Firefox 3.0.10

Asked by Trennik

I'm fairly certain I've enabled the restricted repositories, as I have Quicktime, Java, etc in about:plugins - when I use

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

it tells me that it's installed. It still doesn't work. I tried downloading the .deb package directly from Adobe, but it won't install, there's an error, which makes sense. it says the package is for an earlier Ubuntu release.

I'm not exactly sure where to go from here, I'm new to Ubuntu/Linux for the most part.

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Irving Duran (blacknred0) said : 		#1

make sure that firefox is close whenever you install your flash plugin from synaptic package manager.

if you currently have installe din synaptic, then remove it, and reinstall it again. open firefox and then install for your web browser.

MAKE sure that firefox is closed.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

It might be worth sorting through the rest of the Medibuntu page to get the rest of your multimedia sorted out too. Adobe is a pain but sometimes seems to work a little better when the rest of the Medibuntu stuff is there

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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fluxy (myusufs) said : 		#3

In earlier releases of ubuntu, I used to have an issue when installing the flashplugin-nonfree. Despite the deb being installed, the real installation which involved the actual plugin being downloaded from adobe's site failed, resulting in a non-working plugin.

The solution that I used was as follows:
-Close firefox.
-Download the plugin from adobe: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
-Extract the contents in a folder
-Find the plugin file from the extracted files. (libflashplayer.so)
-Copy it to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

The above can be done 2 ways:
-Commandline: sudo cp <path to libflashplayer.so> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
-Graphically: <ALT+F2> : gksudo nautilus , navigate to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ and drop libflashplayer.so there.

btw there are alternatives to adobe's flash (though they do not provide complete support for flash as adobe's does)
-swfdec (swfdec-gnome to play without requiring firefox and swfdec-mozilla for it to integrate with firefox as plugin)
-gnash

Hope that helps.

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