Latest Adobe Flash plugin just installed - SOLVED

[sdavmor]

On 02/10/2011 10:41 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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.

I'll give that a try in the morning...off to bed now.
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