Hi

I have the proprietary flash-plugin-nonfree installed... why can't i watch y0ub00b...?

I had problems under Lenny and ended up getting the Adobe flash player (libflashplayer.so) from the Adobe download page and putting it my plugins folders.

On this here Ubuntu machine, I have something called flashplugin-alternative.so that seems to work just fine.

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First of all make sure that some other flash opensource alternative is not interfering with the real flash. These are swfdec and gnash, so make sure you don't have them installed.

Second, if you do have the package but not the plugin (file /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so), install it by doing "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" as root.

Third, if any of the above does not work, remove all relevant packages (swfdec, gnash, flashplugin-non-free), get the debian multimedia repo in your sources.list and install package "flashplayer-mozilla" from it.

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I have YouTube running OK in Squeeze. It probably worked OOTB, but I cannot tell 100%. Now I have VLC installed which brings lots of codecs. Probably it also makes some impact on ability to watch YouTube.
And, yes, I am using Chrome. Exclusively. Not the buggy FF.

Never had any issues with Flash. Disable gnash in Tools>Add-ons>Plugins.

Shockwave Flash

Filename /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Plugin Version:
Plugin Description: Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152

$ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla
flashplayer-mozilla:
Installed: 2:10.2.152.27-0.0
Candidate: 2:10.2.152.27-0.0
Version table:
*** 2:10.2.152.27-0.0 0
990 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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