ive installed flash player on ubuntu but vids on youtube wont play or load at all?

noncomputergeek · 10-23-2009, 08:46 PM

all i get is a big black rectangle where the vid is suppose to be.

flash player dosent seem to be working on firefox.
almost no flash related thing will load.
but when i use opera it seems to work better but not like it used to work on windows XP
how can i fix this?

linus72 · 10-23-2009, 09:21 PM

which version of Ubuntu?
err...add this folder to /home/user-name/.mozilla folder
its libflash for flash10

http://multidistro.com/deb/plugins.tar.gz

that'll extract to a folder named plugins
put that in the .mozilla folder
its a hidden folder
enable "show hidden files" in your file manager

if that folders already there annd libflash.so is in there then I'm not sure?

craigevil · 10-23-2009, 09:24 PM

RestrictedFormats/Flash - Community Ubuntu Documentation - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...dFormats/Flash

RestrictedFormats - Community Ubuntu Documentation - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

noncomputergeek · 10-23-2009, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

which version of Ubuntu?

if that folders already there annd libflash.so is in there then I'm not sure?

i have ubuntu 9.04

i added it to the folder but it didnt work
the only other files in that folder are nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt

noncomputergeek · 10-23-2009, 10:37 PM

nevermind my last post.

this time that vid load the little time bar and pause button thing, but i cant pause the vid and the vid wont load at all.

sorry for not being more specific. im like a big time nOOb and cant figure this stuff out.

lidex · 10-23-2009, 11:14 PM

Try entering these commands - one at a time - into terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Restart browser.

You can find a terminal in Accessories menu.

paddy2 · 11-02-2009, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lidex

Try entering these commands - one at a time - into terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Restart browser.

You can find a terminal in Accessories menu.

I had tried everything until I tried this,it worked first time.Many thanks.

hardly · 02-21-2010, 02:53 AM

I have experienced this after installing the FlashBlock add-on for Firefox. Also there was a problem with flash in Karmic shortly after the release that I experienced.
I'm assuming that you no longer have this issue.

When this occured to me, I either restarted Firefox, or rebooted.

THis may be a little old.