[Bug 368917] Re: Could not find package flashplugin-installer

JpJ 808 jpj808 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 11:39:39 UTC 2010


These are procedural notes I was making to myself on this recent (of
many) new installations of Ubuntu:

System:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Nvidia GeForce 4, 1.5 GB DDR RAM...nothing to brag about, that's for sure, but it was free through some volunteer work :-)

New installation of Ubuntu 9.10 ver AMD 64

Update Manager
(restart)

Hardware Drivers:
  Nvidia ver 96 Driver 1280x1024  @ 75Hz
(restart)

Add to Panel:
  terminal
  force quit
  system monitor
  sticky notes
  weather

Application:
  Gnome Partition Editor  (gparted)

Syanptic Package Manager:
  icedtea6-plugin
  flashplugin-installer     <---------!!!!!
  geany
  gcc-multilib

(restart) → 3.16MB used

Tried Speedtest.net using Firefox, got it to run after hitting the Start
Test button a bunch of times, then tried to use another button to answer
their questions: in short, the media plays, but the damn buttons don't
work, and this is why I've tried numerous fresh installations.  (On a
previous installation where Flash was semi-working, YouTube vids would
play, but I couldn't pause, fullscreen, or interact with the
buttons...though if I hit the button at the top-right to watch the video
in a new window, I could use the buttons in the new window.)

So now I completely uninstalled the flashplugin-installer in synaptic,
then went to Adobe for their 9.04+ APT Flash Player, and got the "could
not find package 'adobe flash-plugin'" message...however, it does differ
from the original Bug Report, because nothing was said about the
"installer" package.

Somebody please help me so I don't have to go through another bloody
installation...this is so frustrating :(

Okay...so I actually tried YouTube after all the above, and the buttons
work fine there.  Opened a fresh new tab for Speedtest, but I still have
the same problem...I can get the buttons to work if I hit the mouse
button multiple times, but makes me just want to smash the mouse in
frustration instead.  One might assume that it is Speedtest that I am
having the problem with, but it works fine through my other Ubuntu
laptop, my XP partition, and another system w/ XP.

Could it be that because I tried Speedtest prior to installing Flash,
some sort of config file was created that is wreaking havoc now?  I ask
because I may have tried YouTube prior to installing Flash the last
time...and all the other websites seemed to (mostly) work fine as far as
the buttons went.

So yeah...weird, unsuccessful things keep happening when I try to use
Speedtest, but I'm happy to have discovered that my YouTube buttons are
working fine...now let's see what happens when I download Chrome-beta
;-)...and can somebody tell me how I can backup and restore so I don't
have to keep installing Ubuntu from scratch?  Thanks.

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Could not find package flashplugin-installer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368917
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