Firefox on 9.04 won't play videos at YouTube
Nathan Bahn
nathan.bahn at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 16:12:03 UTC 2009
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> wrote:
>
> --- On *Sun, 11/29/09, Nikita Manovich <nikita.manovich at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Nikita Manovich <nikita.manovich at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: Firefox on 9.04 won't play videos at YouTube
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 2:58 AM
>
> Probably you have amd64 (em64t/x64) architecture... Please try the
> following steps.
>
> 1. Delete all installed flash plugins for firefox browser
> (swfdec-mozilla or flashplugin-installer).
> 2. Download the plugin for your x64 Ubuntu:
> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
> 3. Go to terminal and create the directory: mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/
> 4. Copy the plugin into the directory: cp libflashplayer.so
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/
>
>
> Thanks, * Nikita, for giving the correct instructions for the 64 bit
> plugin installation which I also used and it does work for me.* And also
> for the correct download url to use. This should work for the OP.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:45 -0800, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >
> > --- On Sat, 11/28/09, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=nathan.bahn@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=nathan.bahn@gmail.com>
> >
> > Subject: Re: Firefox on 9.04 won't play videos at YouTube
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
> > discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com<http://mc/compose?to=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
> >
> > Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:57 PM
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM, John Abbott
> > <fewclues at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=fewclues@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:01 -0500, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> > > Attention all--
> > >
> > > First, I want to thank Dan and everyone else who has
> > > offered advice. Regrettably, however, Firefox still
> > > won't play video from sites like YouTube and Veoh on
> > > this person's computer. I respectfully await any
> > > other suggestions.
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Open Synaptic Program Manager, download
> > ubuntu-restricted-extras and everything should be
> > just fine.
> >
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> >
> > NoOp--
> > I used Synaptic Package Manager -- this is 9-04 that's on the
> > computer -- to remove gnash and mozilla-plugin-gnash.
> > John--
> > ububntu-restricted-extras was already downloaded, so I
> > reinstalled it and rebooted the computer.
> > RESULT: Unfortunately, black screens are still being
> > displayed where the streaming video should be.
> > :-(
> > I respectfully await further suggestions.
> >
> >
> > Geeze, You were supposed to completely remove(purge) gnash and
> > mozilla-plugin-gnash. Did you using synaptic, completely
> > remove those two files? If not, then run:
> > sudo aptitude purge gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash
> > I see no problem with reinstalling ububntu-restricted-extras
> > but you still need a flash plugin/player to play flash videos.
> > So that means reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree or
> > flashplugin-installer whichever 9.04 has in the downloads.
> > Maybe run aptitude search flash to see what comes up and maybe
> > run aptitude show <whichever flash program you think you need>
> > to see what is says the program(s) are for and what they do.
> > Pretty basic stuff to help yourself out. HTH you some.
> >
> > Len
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Nikita Manovich.
>
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NoOp--
I received the below:
"
Shockwave Flash File name: libswfdecmozilla.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999"$
uname -a
Linux c-desktop 2.6.28-16-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 09:47:24 UTC
2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Candidate: 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
Version table:
*** 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Len--
$ sudo aptitude purge gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnash-common{u} libboost-date-time1.34.1{u} libboost-thread1.34.1{u}
mozilla-plugin-gnash{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7037kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 145446 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnash-common ...
Removing libboost-date-time1.34.1 ...
Removing libboost-thread1.34.1 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
(Reading database ... 145402 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-plugin-gnash ...
Purging configuration files for mozilla-plugin-gnash ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Nikita--
$ mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/c/.mozilla/plugins/': File exists
c at c-desktop:~$ cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins
cp: cannot stat `libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory
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