Firefox 3.6.6 Update problem

Karl Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 20:48:08 UTC 2010


On 07/08/2010 02:35 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
>    
         Sorry I have no idea how to enable the partners repository. 
Could you give some instructions?


73 Karl

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