<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Leonard Chatagnier <<a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top"> --- On Sun, 11/29/09, Nikita Manovich <<a href="mailto:nikita.manovich@gmail.com" target="_blank">nikita.manovich@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Nikita Manovich <<a href="mailto:nikita.manovich@gmail.com" target="_blank">nikita.manovich@gmail.com</a>><div class="im"> Subject: Re: Firefox on 9.04 won't play videos at YouTube To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> </div>Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 2:58 AM <div><div class="im">Probably you have amd64 (em64t/x64) architecture... Please try the following steps. 1. Delete all installed flash plugins for firefox browser (swfdec-mozilla or flashplugin-installer). 2. Download the plugin for your x64 Ubuntu: <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html" target="_blank">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html</a> 3. Go to terminal and create the directory: mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/ 4. Copy the plugin into the directory: cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ </div>Thanks, Nikita, for giving the correct instructions for the 64 bit plugin installation which I also used and it does work for me. And also for the correct download url to use. This should work for the OP.<div> <div></div><div class="h5"> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:45 -0800, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > --- On Sat, 11/28/09, Nathan Bahn <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=nathan.bahn@gmail.com" target="_blank">nathan.bahn@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > From: Nathan Bahn <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=nathan.bahn@gmail.com" target="_blank">nathan.bahn@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: Firefox on 9.04 won't play videos at YouTube > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general > discussions" <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:57 PM > > > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM, John Abbott > <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=fewclues@gmail.com" target="_blank">fewclues@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:01 -0500, Nathan Bahn wrote: > > Attention all-- > > > > First, I want to thank Dan and everyone else who has > > offered advice. Regrettably, however, Firefox still > > won't play video from sites like YouTube and Veoh on > > this person's computer. I respectfully await any > > other suggestions. > Nathan, > > Open Synaptic Program Manager, download > ubuntu-restricted-extras and everything should be > just fine. > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="http://mc/compose?to=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > > > > NoOp-- > I used Synaptic Package Manager -- this is 9-04 that's on the > computer -- to remove gnash and mozilla-plugin-gnash. > John-- > ububntu-restricted-extras was already downloaded, so I > reinstalled it and rebooted the computer. > RESULT: Unfortunately, black screens are still being > displayed where the streaming video should be. > :-( > I respectfully await further suggestions. > > > Geeze, You were supposed to completely remove(purge) gnash and > mozilla-plugin-gnash. Did you using synaptic, completely > remove those two files? If not, then run: > sudo aptitude purge gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash > I see no problem with reinstalling ububntu-restricted-extras > but you still need a flash plugin/player to play flash videos. > So that means reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree or > flashplugin-installer whichever 9.04 has in the downloads. > Maybe run aptitude search flash to see what comes up and maybe > run aptitude show <whichever flash program you think you need> > to see what is says the program(s) are for and what they do. > Pretty basic stuff to help yourself out. HTH you some. > > Len -- Best regards, Nikita Manovich. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="http://mc/compose?to=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> NoOp-- I received the below: " <h2 class="plugname">Shockwave Flash</h2> <dl><dd>File name: libswfdecmozilla.so</dd><dd> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999"</dd></dl>$ uname -a Linux c-desktop 2.6.28-16-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 09:47:24 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 Candidate: 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 Version table: *** 3.0.15+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0 500 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</a> jaunty-updates/main Packages 500 <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com">http://security.ubuntu.com</a> jaunty-security/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0 500 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</a> jaunty/main Packages Len-- $ sudo aptitude purge gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnash-common{u} libboost-date-time1.34.1{u} libboost-thread1.34.1{u} mozilla-plugin-gnash{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7037kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 145446 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gnash-common ... Removing libboost-date-time1.34.1 ... Removing libboost-thread1.34.1 ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place (Reading database ... 145402 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mozilla-plugin-gnash ... Purging configuration files for mozilla-plugin-gnash ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Nikita-- $ mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/ mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/c/.mozilla/plugins/': File exists c@c-desktop:~$ cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins cp: cannot stat `libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory --N.O.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> & <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a>