Flash not working on new PC

[David Fletcher]

On Tuesday 11 Dec 2007, Scott Abbey wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
> 
> > Might be getting to the bottom of this:-
> > 
> > Using the command line instead of the GUI gizmo:-
> > sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
> > No complaint.
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> > Download done.
> > md5sum mismatch install flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> > The flash plugin is NOT installed.
> 
> Adobe recently released a new version of Flash for Linux. As a result the
> flashplugin-nonfree package (which really just downloads Flash from the
> Adobe website) is downloading a different file than it used to. The Ubuntu
> package verifies the integrity of the file it downloads, and since the file
> is different, the Ubuntu package complains and refuses to install it.

OK,

Thanks, that's fine. I was looking for a reason and I've got it.

This is a brand new machine that I put together last week, but I'm not going 
to bother to jump through hoops to get everything working perfectly on Gutsy. 
I'll play around with it, uncaring whether I break things or not, run the new 
hard drive for a while to make sure it's OK, etc. Then when Hardy is out, 
that's what I'll use it. Assuming that the old machine keeps running.

Dave