Problem with Adobe flash

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/08/2010 20:43, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 01:49 -0400, Pat Brown wrote:
>    
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>          On 28/08/2010 15:35, Pat Brown wrote:
>>          >
>>          >  On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Basil Chupin
>>          <blchupin at iinet.net.au
>>
>>          >  <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>>  wrote:
>>          >
>>          >      On 28/08/2010 14:33, Pat Brown wrote:
>>          >      >  I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto my new Toshiba
>>          Satellite. It came
>>          >      >  with Windows 7 and I have it dual booting. When I'm in
>>          Ubuntu
>>          >      and try
>>
>>          >      >  to run Youtube videos I get  a message that I need
>>          to install the
>>          >      >  latest Adobe Flash Player. But attempts to install
>>          bring up the
>>          >      >  message that my Google Chrome browser already includes
>>          the latest
>>
>>          >      >  Adobe® Flash® Playe. Anyone have any experience
>>          like this?
>>          >      Any ideas
>>          >      >  for a fix?
>>          >
>>          >      I don't use this browser (I use Firefox) so cannot help
>>          - except
>>          >      to ask:
>>          >      Ubuntu does not install Chromium by default (Firefox is
>>          >      installed), and
>>          >      it is Chromium and not Google Chrome so how did you
>>          manage to install
>>          >      Google Chrome?
>>          >
>>          >      BC
>>          >
>>          >      --
>>          >      Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening
>>          is in
>>          >      inverse proportion to its desirability.
>>          >
>>          >
>>          >
>>          >      Because I installed it. I prefer Chromium. Firefox is
>>          too much of
>>          >      a memory hog. I use it on the Windows side, too.
>>          >
>>          >      Pat Brown
>>          >
>>
>>          So its Chromium and not Google Chrome...
>>
>>          Have a look here to see if there is anything of help to you:
>>
>>          https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=chromium+%2B+adobe
>>          +flash&field.actions.search=Search
>>
>>          BC
>>
>>          --
>>          Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in
>>          inverse proportion to its desirability.
>>
>>
>>
>>          Sorry, it's Google Chrome. My mistake.
>>
>>          Pat Brown
>>
>>          http://www.pabrown.com
>>          The vacation from hell -- Forest of Corpses
>>
>>      
> I had a problem in Firefox with Flash Player saying it needed updating ,
> then the installer saying it didn't.  The answer was to remove what was
> in ~/.mozilla/plugins for Adobe (it was actually all there was in that
> folder).  Maybe you have a similar problem with Chromium.
>
> Tony
>    
It's not Chromium. It's Google Chrome. But he won't answer the question 
as to how he installed it.

BC


-- 
Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in
inverse proportion to its desirability.