Firefox 3.6.6 Update problem

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 8 20:35:37 UTC 2010


On 8 July 2010 21:14, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 02:00 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/08/2010 11:42 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/08/2010 07:40 AM, Tarun Khanna wrote:
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> echo "Installing Adobe Flash Plugin:"
>>>> sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
>>>>
>>>       Hi Tarun thanks for the super instructions! I got to the last and
>>> that failed. It appears the Ubuntu name has changed. I used
>>> "adobe-flashplugin" and it complained "no such thing" but said it was
>>> close to something they have.
>>>
>>> All the sudo rm appeared to work. When I went back to the web page it
>>> didn't show the thing to click on but allowed me to d/l the whole mp3
>>> file Which I did and watched it on my Good VLC vieo player :-)
>>>
>>> I guess a new name for the adobe-flashplugin is reuired.
>>>
>>
>> Make sure that the partners repository is enabled.
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy adobe-flashplugin
>> adobe-flashplugin:
>>    Installed: 10.1.53.64-1lucid1
>>    Candidate: 10.1.53.64-1lucid1
>>    Version table:
>>   *** 10.1.53.64-1lucid1 0
>>          500 http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid/partner Packages
>>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
>>
>>
>>
>     That is NOT what I get here:
>
> karl at Lucid:~$ apt-cache policy adobe-flashplugin
> adobe-flashplugin:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version table:
>
>     Since I get none what next?

Have you enabled the partners repository as NoOp suggested?

Colin




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