Downloading Flash in Firefox

Michael Satterwhite michael at weblore.com
Sun May 23 18:47:41 UTC 2010


On Sunday, May 23, 2010 01:04:50 pm Loic Duros wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Maybe try to go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
> Once you are in there, type flashplugin-installer in the quick search.
> 
> See if this is installed. If not, you should try to install this and
> then start firefox for testing. It worked for me to install it from the
> Package Manager, but not from the Firefox Plugin interface.

Before posting this message, I had run
	sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree

	sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree

According to synaptic, these packages are installed.


> 
> 
> Loic
> 
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:59 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > I just upgraded my install to 10.04. Since that time, Flash fails to
> > work. At first, it said to download it - which I tried. At this, I
> > stopped getting error messages, but the flash doesn't play at all. I've
> > tried everything I've found here on the problem (including the reinstall
> > in this message), but the results are the same - no flash.
> > 
> > Can anyone offer any help? I can't find anything else to try.
> > 
> > ---Michael
> > 
> > On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 03:07:24 pm H.S. wrote:
> > > On 10-05-18 03:12 PM, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> > > > Has anyone had a problem in Firefox running 10.04 getting the plugin
> > > > to load?
> > > > 
> > > > Every time I visit a site that needs flash, I'm prompted to download
> > > > the current plug-in.  When I follow the links I have two choices,
> > > > one for 8.04 + (a .deb file) and a second one for 9.10+ (APT file). 
> > > > If I try the 8.04 route, I get absolutely nothing.  When I try the
> > > > 9.04 option it tells me that it's a virtual install (sorry, I didn't
> > > > write down the exact error message.)  It doesn't work after all of
> > > > that.
> > > > 
> > > > I installed the player just fine on my IBM, HP, and Gateway desktops.
> > > > I'm having this problem on a Dell computer at work. It will not run
> > > > the most recent kernal,so I'm one version behind. Could that be the
> > > > source of the problem?
> > > > 
> > > > tnx
> > > > 
> > > > mcm
> > > 
> > > I was having problems with flash player as well on my newly upgraded
> > > machine to Lucid. Here is what worked for me:
> > > 
> > > 1. Installed java (not sure if this is necessary, but I did this so I
> > > am listing it here; besides, I needed java anyway):
> > > $> sudo aptitude  install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
> > > sun-java6-fonts
> > > 
> > > 2. Next, removed and installed flash stuff:
> > > $> sudo aptitude  purge flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> > > flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
> > > 
> > > $> sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> > > flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
> > > 
> > > 
> > > After these two steps, flash started to work (BBC, youtube, etc.). This
> > > on a 32 bit Dell laptop, btw.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards.




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