Latest Adobe Flash plugin just installed - SOLVED

[NoOp]

On 02/10/2011 09:02 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 12:56, NoOp wrote:
>> On 02/08/2011 10:23 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> A few minutes ago the Update Manager (for Maverick) installed the latest
>>> Adobe Flash plugin v 10.2.152.27.........and now I cannot see any videos
>>> (on YouTube, BBC, et al).
>>>
>>> The moral of this story is: do NOT install the new plugin.
>> Is it?
> 
> Yes it is.
> 
> I could have added, "until the question has been resolved" but I 
> consider people here intelligent enough to deduce this for themselves.
> 
>> $ apt-cache policy adobe-flashplugin
>> adobe-flashplugin:
>>    Installed: 10.2.152.27-0maverick1
>>    Candidate: 10.2.152.27-0maverick1
>>    Version table:
>>   *** 10.2.152.27-0maverick1 0
>>          500http://archive.canonical.com/  maverick/partner i386 Packages
>>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> This is not as useful as suggested because while the above is showing on 
> my system......
> 
> 
>> about:plugins
>> Shockwave Flash
>>
>>      File name: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>>      Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
> 
> 
> ....this is NOT what shows up in my about:plugins. What shows up is 
> filename: libgnashplugin.so and the version is 10.1.r999. What is 
> installed is not reflected in what Firefox actually "sees" and tries to 
> use (the *.so in /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so ).

at one point in time you installed
mozilla-plugin-gnash/browser-plugin-gnash. I've found in the past that
gnash conflicts with with adobe flash... haven't tracked down exactly
why, but it does.