Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Peter Smout]

On 29/08/13 08:33, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 29/08/13 14:51, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 08/28/2013 03:15 PM, Pete Smout wrote:
>>> On 28 August 2013 20:06, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 28 August 2013 19:44, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 28 August 2013 19:39, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Right now I am proper confused....
>>>>>> Google Chrome dl'd straight from them (they at least provide a
>>>>>> .deb of
>>>>>> their latest n greatest) still wants to use shockwave flash
>>>>>> plugin not
>>>>>> adobe's as i thought one out of chrome or chromium did!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I still cant find shockwave / gnash / swf to remove it, unable to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> vlc or totem as the plugin (when enabled in firefox) is youtube
>>>>>> et al
>>>>>> unusable for us linuxers now?
>>>>>
>>>>> It works fine for me from the repo in unflavoured Ubuntu 12.04 and
>>>>> 13.10.
>>>>> I believe the file (in 13.10) is
>>>>> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
>>>>>
>>>>> Colin
>>>>>
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>>>> Thanks for the info Colin it is the same here, in the same folder is a
>>>> script handily called install-plugin which I ran from terminal and
>>>> Nothing Nada no output nothing, no youtube either!
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking either conflict with shockwave or give up and I cant see
>>>> gnash / swf/ shockwave in that folder so.....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For info (slack of me not to put it up sooner)
>>>>
>>>> CPU       AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
>>> RAM         1001 MiB
>>> Graphics    GeForce FX 5200
>>>
>>
>> Got your nVidia driver installed? (legacy) Ric
>
> I am coming in at the end of this thread so this may have been already
> covered.
>
> Ask the OP (1) if his installation is a clean install or an upgrade
> from an earlier version and where he, therefore, retained his /home
> directory; (2) is the copy of Firefox the one installed by Ubuntu or
> manually installed from the Mozilla site; and (3) where does the
> symlink for flashplayer point in his setup - is it pointing at the
> correct version of flash (and in the correct directory).
>
> BC
>
Hi,

Many thanks for the suggestions, none of which have worked?!?

Ric, I went into /var/cache/apt/archives and removed anything with flash
in the name!! I then went back into software-center and removed
ubuntu-restricted-extras and reinstalled it (still never got told to
accept the licence), I done it this way as that is recommended on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash for 32bit pc's
(note after that I tried flashplugin-installer which the docs say for
64bit), neither way asked for licence to be okay'd or produced anything
on youtube.


Basil C, In answer to your questions it is a fresh install, so no left
over configs, browser is default (no added addons or anything yet...).
Your 3rd question has left me slightly stumped, how do I check this?

I appologise wholeheartedly if my tone last night offended or upset
anyone on this list, it had been a long hard day, and I was not really
in the mood for playing around with pc's (especially one that isn't mine ;))

I am sure this is a resolvable problem, I have never had any flash
problems before, although I have ended up going to their site and
manually installing it from there before now!!

My friend is new to our Ubuntu world, I have successfully installed
Ubuntu 13.04 onto his fairly modern laptop (flash no problem) but this
old PC is driving me insane!! Even with Win 7 on it flash worked no
probs Pc was slower than a slow thing when asleep! But at least it all
worked!

Thanks again

Pete Smout