<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Okay, I just finally found the + button in chrome://plugins that I've seen mentioned:<br><br>Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.2 r202<br>Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202<br>Name: Shockwave Flash<br>Version: 11.2 r202<br>Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so<br>Type: NPAPI<br> Disable<br>MIME types: <br>MIME type Description File extensions<br>application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash <br>.swf<br>application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player <br>.spl<br><br><div><span><br></span></div><div>and:</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17418724 Mar 30 19:29 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Oh, one thing. This file compares exactly with what I'd gotten from the tarball from adobe.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">That means that my apt-get of flashplugin-installer either was not recognized, or it's exactly the same binary as adobe is providing....</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I also did</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> sudo dpkg -r google-chrome-stable</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">of this package that I got from google: google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I see from wikipedia what the difference is between chrome and chromium...<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">(actually, I realize that I just went from google's chrome to ubuntu's chromium - I guess both should have worked).</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">and just for kicks, I re-ran this:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state
information... Done<br>flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.<br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 394 not upgraded.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Charles Smith <cts.private@yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:22 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome<br> </font> </div> <br>On 30 March 2013 17:33, Charles Smith <<a ymailto="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com">cts.private@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thank you for your response.<br>><br>> Sorry, I can't reply directly to your points, because yahoo's totally trashy<br>> interface no longer allows indented quoted messages....<br><br>Can you not just scroll down and insert at appropriate point?<br><br>><br>> I'm sure that it's chrome I installed (chromium isn't the OS?):<br>><br>> $ ls /opt/google/chrome<br>> PepperFlash libpdf.so product_logo_22.png<br>> chrome libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so product_logo_24.png<br>>
chrome-sandbox libwidevinecdm.so product_logo_256.png<br>> chrome.pak libwidevinecdmadapter.so product_logo_32.png<br>> chrome_100_percent.pak locales product_logo_32.xpm<br>> cron nacl_helper product_logo_48.png<br>> default-app-block nacl_helper_bootstrap product_logo_64.png<br>> default_apps nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe resources.pak<br>> google-chrome nacl_irt_x86_64.nexe
xdg-mime<br>> google-chrome.desktop product_logo_128.png xdg-settings<br>> libffmpegsumo.so product_logo_16.png<br>><br>><br>> You're right, I wish I hadn't mixed the tarball and the apt-get but I didn't<br>> know about flash-installer or whatever it was - I tried apt-get install<br>> flash and it came up with nothing. Now I don't know if the tarball<br>> installation has left any artifacts laying around (I removed the .so). It<br>> still doesn't work, no change in symptoms, even with the flash-installer<br>> installed.<br>><br>> Can other people use a browser with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS? (silly question,<br>> but I don't know what I did unusual. And I'm anyway blown away that a<br>> browser isn't preinstalled).<br><br>I think maybe when you installed you did not check the box that
says<br>to install non-free components (like flash).<br>I think also you did not install chromium browser from the Ubuntu<br>repository either as I would have expected it to be installed in<br>/usr/bin<br><br>$ which chromium-browser<br>/usr/bin/chromium-browser<br><br>It is installed using<br>sudo apt-get install chromium-browser<br>or looking for chromium browser in software centre.<br><br>I think as soon as you start installing things by hand then it can get<br>problematic. Not much help I know, sorry.<br><br>Colin<br><br><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Hal Burgiss <<a ymailto="mailto:hal@burgiss.net" href="mailto:hal@burgiss.net">hal@burgiss.net</a>><br>> To: Charles Smith <<a ymailto="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com">cts.private@yahoo.com</a>>; "Ubuntu user technical support,<br>> not for general discussions" <<a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"
href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:40 PM<br>> Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome<br>><br>><br>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Charles Smith <<a ymailto="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cts.private@yahoo.com">cts.private@yahoo.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> Can anybody make anything out of these messages from chrome?<br>><br>> [17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name<br>> owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of<br>> name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name<br>> [17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name<br>> owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of<br>> name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name<br>> [17204:17204:0330/170705:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)]
Failed to call method:<br>> org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd:<br>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was<br>> not provided by any .service files<br>> [17204:17204:0330/170710:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented<br>> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()<br>> [17204:17204:0330/170715:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented<br>> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()<br>> [16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init<br>> returned false<br>> [16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in<br>> [16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init<br>> returned false<br>> [16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in<br>>
[17204:17204:0330/170747:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented<br>> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()<br>><br>><br>><br>> Are you sure you've installed Google Chrome and not chromium (related but<br>> different beasts)? Your initial instincts were correct, it should just<br>> "work", at least with Google Chrome, which has flash included (I don't think<br>> chromium does, but I don't use it, so ...).<br>><br>> Also, I would suggest not mix and matching apt package installed stuff with<br>> tarballs. If the gods are against you, things could get messy.<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Hal<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> ubuntu-users mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:<br>> <a
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