Moving from Fedora to Ubuntu - am I doing the right thing?

[NoOp]

On 10/03/2008 03:42 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Knapp schreef:
>>> How do you play flash 9.0 on the 64-bit processor?
>>> I haven't succeeded, I hope I don't highjack this thread but you said
>>> ".. to find something I can't make run on Ubuntu.." and I wonder how you
>>> do this.
>>> Joep
>> 
>> Install a 32 bit FF on your 64 bit os. You can not tell any big speed
>> difference and you will have java and flash. I have both installed on
>> my computer. (32 ff and 64 ff)
> Douglas, Leonard, Chris,
> Thanks for the advices.
> Actually I folowed Leonard's advice and reinstalled flashplugin-nonfree 
> and although it gave an error, saying "invalid option -n" it apparently 
> installed.
> When using aptitude show etc. it says:
> "Package: flashplugin-nonfree
> State: partially configured."

You should fix that as it will give you problems later on. See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/173890
for an interesting peek into the problems with flashplugin-nonfree.

Also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree

For your partially configured problem, see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/247634
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/252051
and those probably link back to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/133452

Sigh... I'm afraid that this is one issue that is easily resolved by
running 32bit; download flash from Adobe, put the .so in
~/.mozilla/plugins and be done with it.


> But I can see the video's on youtube (which was one of the reasons I 
> wanted it running) so I don't need yo install the 32-bit ff version.
> I tried that a year ago in Fedora but that didn't work. It simply 
> refused to install.
> But thanks again. It shows the value of an experienced users community.
> Joep
> 
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