[ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

[Rowan Berkeley]

I already tried both and SWFdec doesn't even appear under Synaptic,
which is what I meant when I said it had disappeared into the innards of
the firefox configuration. Evidently, just like Alan said, I shall need
some code, to find it from the terminal.

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:34 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 13/03/2009 18:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
> > videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
> > plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them
> > can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox>  Tools>  Add-ons,
> > namely Gnash 0.8.4, but the other one seems to have vanished into the
> > Firefox configuration without possibility of disabling or uninstalling,
> > namely SWFdec 0.8.0, and I would like to get rid of both of them and try
> > again, since right now any attempt to run embedded videos just hangs the
> > browser, so that I have to use a forced close on it. I have not tried to
> > alter or remove the video player utilities that came with the Ubuntu
> > 8.10 LiveCD, which is otherwise running perfectly. So, any advice on how
> > to roll back these (or all) add-ons and plug-ins I myself have installed
> > today would be great. Thanks.
> >    
> Someone might be able to better advise (I'm not on an Ubuntu machine at 
> the moment) but you could either look in Add/Remove Programs (which is 
> on the Applications Menu) or under Synaptic (which if I remember 
> correctly is on the System Menu under Administration.  When you run 
> either of them you will be asked to enter your password, just enter your 
> normal password you used to login (same as what Firefox would have asked 
> for).
> 
> Hopefully this will help... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto
> 
> What you need to do is search for the application, so in this case 
> SWFdec and Gnash (you'll probably need to search for them 
> individually).  They should hopefully come up with a green box next to 
> them.  If you right click on them you should be able to select them for 
> removal (not sure if you'd need to do a complete removal, I'd try just 
> the mark for removal first) and then click the Apply button.  It should 
> then remove SWFdec and Gnash from your system.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rob
> 
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