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Cannot find 'flashplugin-nonfree'

Asked by ping

I am a noob so don't be to harsh. I just install Gusty Gibbon and I wanted to access certain sites that use Adobe flash. I clicked on the tab that automatically searches and finds the correct one. I did that and it said Cannot find flashplugin-nonfree. I checked and i actually did have a nonfree file. I also just downloaded it from their site and tried to install it. I While installing It asked for the path of Firefox. every path that I tried didn't work. I'm thinking that maybe that these 2 problems are linked somehow but I don't have the knowledge or nohow to do it. I still dont have a flash player installed and these are my plugins:
application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
audio/x-ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
video/ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/x-ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 NSV video nsv Yes
video/flv Flash video flv Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-mplayer2 AVI video avi, wma, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin ASF video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf ASF video asf Yes
video/x-ms-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Playlist wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wm ASF video wmv Yes
application/x-ms-wms WMV video wms Yes
application/asx Playlist asx Yes
DivX® Web Player

    File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/divx AVI video divx Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0

    File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime QT video mov Yes
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4 Yes
image/x-macpaint MacPaint Bitmap image pntg Yes
image/x-quicktime Macintosh Quickdraw/PICT drawing pict, pict1, pict2 Yes
video/x-m4v MPEG-4 video m4v

Thanks to anyone who looks at this and tries to identify the problem.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#1

Hi !

open synaptic, and search for "flashplugin-nonfree". right-click and select install : you are done !

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ping (jacob-pearson1) said : 		#2

It seems to be that "flashplugin-nonfree" didn't show up in synaptic. I also searched for flashplugin-nonfree in my file system and it didn't show up there either.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

Make sure that under software sources you have enabled "software that has copyright restrictions" which is in the multiverse category of the repository.

Hope this helps

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#4

See here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#head-5bbef89639d9a7d93fe38f6356dc17847d373096 r information how to add the multiverse section of the repository in ubuntu.

Hope this helps.

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Dara Adib (daradib) said : 		#5

There is a bug with flashplugin-nonfree that you will soon encounter. See Bug 173890 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397

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