Hello folks, I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.1, ran all the required updates, Ubuntu restricted and so forth, and I cannot view flash websites! I've tried reinstalling flash and it does no good, any ideas why this is happening? TIA BTW the same thing happens with Opera, flash will not work.
Please type Code: about:plugins in the address bar of Firefox. IS the Flash Player listed in the list of plugins that appears?
Flash and Firefox Ok I determined that it was the flash player in the repo that was the problem, it's a bad version! I removed flash first of all: sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree gnash Then I downloaded a different flash player: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp9_archive.zip I unzipped the archive: tar -zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz Or simply right click the archive in the folder where you downloaded it and select "extract", then point it to the folder where you wish to save it. Then I installed the new version of flash player by simply navigating to the correct folder, there are several versions in this archive so select the appropriate one for your OS. I saved mine in the documents folder, 9r48 is for linux: /documents/fp9_archive/9r48/install_flash_player_9_linux sudo ./flashplayer-installer You'll be asked for the install path, for firefox it's: /usr/lib/firefox/ Then I launched firefox and flash now works!
Flash and Firefox Hi, I intended just to drop falko a line thanking him for the work he did on the tutorial, especially providing all those time-consuming pictures. VMware and f-stop were also on the list of packages to install and I wanted to learn how to use them. I had just tried out Kubuntu and it took me 35 minutes to install Flash, so I was looking for an easier approach than having to enable the multiverse repository. Thanks also for the VMware pointer on tut. page 5. I went to the Macromedia website and downloaded the current flash*tar.gz which I unpacked in /home/ubuntu/downloads into the same directories that mrwasabi recounted for Flash. I ran flash-install from the command line which I thought would be the same as terminal, but it didn't work until I switched to terminal which was available in the command line option window. I saw it install although as I didn't use sudo it just installed for the user logged in, me. When I went back to the Macromedia site with Firefox (which was easy to install) flash and sound just worked without any more ado. Thanks for the Tutorial, Techtonics
