Adobe flash KUbuntu 10.04 flashplugin-installer AMD 64bit, "You need to upgrade your flash player. Download it from Adobe."; jor Ubuntu

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On 09/22/2010 01:14 AM, giovanni_re wrote:
> I can't get flash working now.  It was working maybe a month ago, but
> then stopped, & I haven't tired since then.
> 
> The latest message is:
> "You need to upgrade your flash player. Download it from Adobe."
> 
> But, I've  tried installing it using the Ubuntu flashplugin-installer,
> but it won't show up as installed.
> 
> 
> ==
> I'm running Firefox direct from Mozilla, not ubuntu, to have the debug
> ability on, for if a crash occurs.
> 
> I turned off flashblock & noscript, & restarted Firefox, then killed
> firefox.
> 
> I purged flashplugin-installer, then reinstalled it.  It downloaded &
> installed flash from adobe.
> 
> I ran firefox from the command line, choosing not to use the:
> "-no-remote -P default",
> which I use to run multiple copies of ff at once.
> 
> Before it started it asked which type of ff to run (using the names I've
> given it for the multiple instances/topics I've set up).  I selected the
> "default".
> 
> Still it fails to use the flash player on YouTube pages, giving the
> "need to upgrade" error message.
> 
> ==
> How can this be fixed?
> 
> Thanks :)

I also run Mozilla FF rather than Ubuntu FF in most cases:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11pre) Gecko/20100922
Namoroka/3.6.11pre

Flash is working just fine for me:
Shockwave Flash

    File: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    Version:
    Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85

$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     10.0.45.2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Packages

Nothing special in ~/.mozilla/plugins (other than multimedia .so's):
$ ls -al ~/.mozilla/plugins
total 552
drwxr-xr-x  3 gg gg  4096 2010-06-13 19:58 .
drwx------ 11 gg gg  4096 2010-06-13 19:56 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 gg gg 92536 2010-06-13 19:58 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
-rw-r--r--  1 gg gg 92532 2010-06-13 19:58 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
-rw-r--r--  1 gg gg 92532 2010-06-13 19:58 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
-rw-r--r--  1 gg gg 96628 2010-06-13 19:58 gecko-mediaplayer.so
-rw-r--r--  1 gg gg 92536 2010-06-13 19:58 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
-rwx------  1 gg gg 77510 2010-04-12 14:39 libnpjp2.so
drwx------  2 gg gg  4096 2010-02-11 17:55 moonlight

However, I also have the Ubuntu FF version installed as well:
$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Candidate: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

The Mozilla version is installed in a home folder
(/home/<usernam>/firefix64) and I've made no changes/mods to that; it
uses the same ~/.mozilla/firefox preferences/profile & same
pluginreg.dat file in the profile.

You could install (U)FF and run once using the same profile; that will
create/update the profile pluginreg.dat file & you should then be able
to run the (M)FF and it will pick up the appropriate plugins. Or, create
a symlink in ~/.mozilla/plugins to
/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.