Adobe Flash Plugin

Richard cms0009 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 04:53:24 UTC 2008


On Sunday 16 December 2007 7:31:36 pm Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 18:49 -0500, Schiz0 wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install Adobe's flash plugin for firefox using apt-get.
> > However, after it downloads the file from adobe.com, it gives the
> > following error:
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > 18:40:23 (1.42 MB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved
> > [3036127/3036127]
> >
> > Download done.
> > md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> > The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
> >
> > Press return to continue.
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > Obviously, the md5 hash didn't match up. I'm assuming adobe updated
> > the plugin AFTER the package was last updated. Is there any work
> > around for this?
>
> Yep, it's coming. An updated package is in gutsy-proposed. You can
> either wait until it hits gutsy-updates, you can add gutsy-proposed to
> your list of repositories, or you can download the gusty-proposed
> package right now and install using gdebi:
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flas
>hplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu0.7.10_i386.deb (other versions are at
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/ )
>
> > Thanks for your time.

I try this download as well, Sorry to say, it will crash on youtube and 
several other website, running flash media.

Theres a major bug somewhere.. in this flash..

running Konqueror web brwoser (K)ubuntu 7.10

Regards-
Richard





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