no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

[Colin Law]

On 1 April 2013 15:06, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wow.  Just mind-boggling.  This url works:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8kHe4vqZQ
>
> and this one doesn't (disclaimer: no endorsement of the content)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvkacsZFJE0
> (a player is painted, but it says, "The Adobe flash player is required for
> playback.  Get the latest Flash player")

That is because you removed it I guess.  You could try
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
in the hope that will put back the stuff you manually removed.

>
> I think I'm going to install suse.  Does anyone know if Sun's OS plays
> flash?

If you think a full system re-install is required just re-install
ubuntu but this time watch for the checkbox saying to install non-free
stuff, and don't do anything manually unless you are certain it is not
supported in the repositories.

Then check that flashplugin-installer has been installed (and install
it if not, or just tell it to install anyway and it will tell you
whether it is already in).

Colin

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> ________________________________
> From: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>
> To: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 2:31 PM
>
> Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome
>
> Update finished.  Looks like it worked.  I ran chromium and had no change.
> I (re)removed everything I could (chromium, firefox, etc. and any and all
> libraries:
> .mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> .mozilla/libflashplayer.so
> .mozilla/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/firefox-addons/libflashplayer.so
> /lusr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> (did I forget any?  I thought there was a flash dir in /usr/ somewhere but I
> can't find it now)
> )
>
> and then I reinstalled google-chrome.  It works!  On youtube.  Except that I
> get a banner that says
>
> "Adobe flash player is required to display some elements on this page."
>
> When I click on "install plugin ...", I get to the flash download page...
> Chrome we're talking about here...
>
> I'm not sure what that's all about.  I'll live with this for awhile, if I
> can.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>
> To: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome
>
> Boy, am I glad I've got you!
>
> It's chugging away now ...
>
> I did read carefully, but it completed so quickly, I assumed that something
> went wrong that I couldn't see.  Then there was an update process running,
> so I figured the important errors were elsewhere...
>
> I map F12 in xterm to " 2>&1 | tee ", so saving the output is almost as easy
> as hitting return.
>
> I'm using yahoo now, but I won't be for long (after years of "loyalty" (i.e.
> laziness))
>
> ________________________________
> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> To: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome
>
> On 1 April 2013 10:26, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Okay, did this:
>>
>>  sudo apt-get update 2>&1 | tee 0401-1.upgrade
>>
>> and got the 91 lines attached below.  Is there a progress log somewhere?
>> I
>> couldn't find anything in "man apt-get" or see anything obvious in
>> /var/log
>> ...
>>
>> Anyway, afterwhile, "upgrade" was no longer in the ps(1) output, so I
>> tried
>> again with chromium - no luck.  I also tried this, just in case:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
>> [sudo] password for mellman:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 394 not upgraded.
>
> You did not read carefully what I suggested, I said first run
> sudo apt-get update
> which you did, and there seem to be no errors.  apt-get update just
> updates the list of packages that need to be upgraded.  I then said
> that if that was ok to do
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> which will actually do the upgrade.  Since you have not done that then
> the upgrade has not happened.
>
> By the way you can copy out of the terminal using Ctrl+Shift+C to
> avoid messing about with pipes and Tee.  You may prefer it that way of
> course, in which case that is fine.
>
>
> Can you really not insert post in hotmail?  Have you tried switching
> to plain text mode, I assume you can do that.
>
> Colin
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