Adobe flash shockwave issue

Asked by Allen

Adobe flash has become a pain in the A** on my system!
The fact is, it isn't working at all.

Is there another player I can set up to watch the flash content I find on the internet?
If there is, how do I go about installing/running it.

If we have to live with a player program that is no longer supported, it look like you have to spend the better part of a day "Reading there instructions and Trems of use" to install the 32 bit version!
And then send the balance of the day getting it installed!

To make matters worse I'm running Xubuntu, not even sure if the fix they have will work.

Any suggestion to deal with this?

Thanks

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#1

What Ubuntu release are you running?

As an alternative to Adobe flash player you can install the chromium browser and the pepperflash plugin
see also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash/

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Allen (allenwg2005) said :
#2

Sorry, Xubuntu 14.4

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Colin Brown (colinwilliambrown) said :
#3

I've been seeing Chrome/Flash issues since an update yesterday. Flash runs for a few minutes and then crashes. It has occurred on several web sites for both videos and Flash-based games.

I'm on Xubuntu 14.04.

Re-installing Chrome was no help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

Thanks

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Allen (allenwg2005) said :
#5

allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux allen-ThinkPad-T500 3.13.0-30-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 4 21:43:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ii flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.394ubuntu0.14.04.1 i386 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
allen@allen-ThinkPad-T500:~$

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#6

1. It seems that you have not installed all recent updates. So you are running buggy software.

2. I recommend you try installing the chromium-browser and the pepperflash-plugin

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

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Allen (allenwg2005) said :
#7

This fixed the Chrome-browser, now on to Firefox.

Thanks