Ubuntu 12.04 hanging very frequently

Sanjib Sikder sanjibju2002 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 14:53:41 UTC 2013


Hi,

> If we knew the exact message then we could possibly help.

I uninstalled the adobe flash plug in that I had installed manually. Then I
tried to install it through software center. The first message that it
showed is:

Requires installation of untrusted packages
> The action would require the installation of packages from not
> authenticated sources.
> Details:
> flashplugin-installer


And it asked for repair. Once repair button is selected, it installed adobe
flash plug in with a pop up which says


Failure to download extra data files
> The following packages requested additional data downloads after package
> installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be
> processed.
> flashplugin-installer
> The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download
> again now.  Running this command requires an active Internet connection.


The option was 'run this action now'. On pressing that, the terminal opened
with following lines

flashplugin-installer: downloading
> http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.273.orig.tar.gz


After sometime the terminal got closed. So ultimately the  adobe installer
got installed but the installer could not download and install adobe flash
plug in.

There is no issue with my internet connection.

How do I install adobe flash plug in from software center ?

Thanks.

-----------------------------
*Sanjib Sikder
*Ph.D. Fellow
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay*

*


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 4 March 2013 10:50, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >> In your situation I think I would uninstall the one
> > you installed manually and then, in the software centre, search for
> > Adobe and install the Adobe flashplugin there.
> >
> > The problem in installing from Software Centre or sudo apt-get install
> was
> > that it could not install and was showing a message telling that it is
> > unable to install the adobe plug in. That is why I installed it manually.
>
> If we knew the exact message then we could possibly help.
> Otherwise I notice that I got an update to the plugin this morning.
> If you don't want to try from the repository again then you should
> check on the Adobe site to see if you have the latest version.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > Sanjib Sikder
> > Ph.D. Fellow
> > Chemical Engineering
> > IIT Bombay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4 March 2013 10:23, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> >>How did you install it?
> >> >
> >> > I installed it from the following Adobe website
> >> > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> >> >
> >> > At the website, once I chose the appropriate operating system, it
> asked,
> >> > how
> >> > would I like to open it. I chose Ubuntu Software Centre and installed
> >> > that
> >> > way,
> >>
> >> The disadvantage of doing it that way, I think, is that you will not
> >> automatically get updates.  Installing it from the Ubuntu repository
> >> will automatically get updates.  I don't know what the best thing to
> >> do now is though.  In your situation I think I would uninstall the one
> >> you installed manually and then, in the software centre, search for
> >> Adobe and install the Adobe flashplugin there.  I am not a flash
> >> expert however so there may be a better solution to your problem.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > -----------------------------
> >> > Sanjib Sikder
> >> > Ph.D. Fellow
> >> > Chemical Engineering
> >> > IIT Bombay
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 3 March 2013 17:30, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 since it was released without any
> >> >> > issue
> >> >> > but
> >> >> > it is hanging very frequently since the last week. I have observed
> >> >> > that
> >> >> > since the last update of my Ubuntu, there was an issue with adobe
> >> >> > flash
> >> >> > plug
> >> >> > in. A message popped up on every new start of the system that it
> >> >> > failed
> >> >> > to
> >> >> > install adobe flash. I installed it manually.
> >> >>
> >> >> How did you install it?
> >> >>
> >> >> Colin
> >> >>
> >> >> >  From then onwards, whenever
> >> >> > firefox (the latest version) is running, Ubuntu freezes completely
> if
> >> >> > I
> >> >> > try
> >> >> > to run a few (3 or 4, say) applications simultaneously.  It seems
> if
> >> >> > I
> >> >> > do
> >> >> > not run firefox and use Chrome, the system behaves properly.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I would like to use firefox on Ubuntu 12.04. Please help, so that
> my
> >> >> > system
> >> >> > does not freeze.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks
> >> >> >
> >> >> > -----------------------------
> >> >> > Sanjib Sikder
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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