Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/08/13 23:32, Peter Smout wrote:
> 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?

Install mc (Midnight Commander) - the Swiss Knife of file managers.

In the console, on a command line run 'mc'; click on the 'Command' 
option at the very top left and then click on 'Find File' - a menu will 
drop down. Untick/tick the options which you see as per what is shown here:

http://susepaste.org/31607637

Select the starting point for the search - use / - and type in the name 
of the file you are looking for on the 'File Name' line; press OK and 
'mc' will go away and look in all your connected/active devices for that 
file.

I see that you have tried to re-install the Adobe flash again - and 
again you did not get Adobe's Agreement to abide by their copyright 
conditions. This IS strange.

Anyway, doing the search in 'mc' will shown if flashplayer is actually 
installed.

BTW, in Firefox' Add-ons, the Extensions (Tools>Plugins) you should have 
the flashplayer shown as being installed and available. Which version is 
shown there?


> 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!!

I wouldn't install from their site. Use the installer for your system - 
in your case Synaptic - to do this. Reason for this is from my 
experience the installation from Adobe may end up in the wrong directory 
to what your system wants used (this is where the symlink comes into 
play). So, always use your system's installer.

BTW, you can go to the Mozilla site and check to see if the flashplayer 
is the latest one is installed on your system. Worth checking out. 
Reason why I mention this is that at one time I had a hell of a time 
getting flashplayer to work - also on a very similar system to yours 
[AMD, XP. 5200 NVidia card [which, BTW, requires the LEGACY driver from 
nVidia and not any of the latest drivers] ] becuase there was a conflict 
between what Adobe had and what my system installed; adjusting the 
symlink fixed the problem.


> 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

BC

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