flash stopped working after update?!

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> From: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
> Subject: Re: flash stopped working after update?!
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 7:26 PM
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 07:40 -0700,
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > What does "sudo update-alternatives --all" show for
> all the
> > flashplugin/player show for default settings. 
> This topic was
> > covered this month I think.  I have Jaunty amd64
> also and did
> > have to run update alternatives for all the flash
> entries to get
> > embedded flash videos working right.
> 
> People not being able to view flash was covered. *Losing*
> flash from a
> fully functional system for no discernible reason was not
> covered.
> 
Hi KArl, something does seem amiss here based on my experience.  I usually have to run update-alernatives whenever I install(upgrade) to a new kernel version. On many occasions, on an update or new install, I have to go through the update-alternatives again(they change). As we both use 9.04 64 bit, I'm surprised you only have the npwrapper since swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so is an auto install, I believe, and I have both.  swf-dec was the default where flash didn't work, now the npwrapper flash installer is by my selection and flash media play fine.  I'm no expert here so may be missing something. I've also had to reinstall flashplugin-nonfree a few times on several versions of Ubuntu. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help, but did you get flash media to play for you yet.  Hope so.

> Below is what update-alternatives said about flashplugins.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides
> xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides mozilla-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides
> midbrowser-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides firefox-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides
> iceweasel-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides
> xulrunner-flashplugin
> (/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so).
> Nothing to
> configure.
>