Ubuntu

flash plugin wont work

Asked by kai

I have had ubunto one day everything is more or less working except when I went to bbc7 to listen to show would not run and I tried to load flash player 10 but I get this error message on package manager "E:The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it."
tried various things but cant get player to work can you help please I am a novice to this system and slightly confused having been used to windows xp setup but I must say that this seems faster and simpler once I get the hang of it.
I am running Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
kai

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Johan van der Lingen (johanlingen-hotmail) said : 		#1

Most websites work for me by installing the package "flashplugin-installer". This will download the Adobe flash player.

You can do so through package management or type on a command prompt:

$ sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer

("$" indicating the command prompt, so you shouldn't actually type the dollar sign).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

It wont, he has gone to the adobe site and downloaded the godforsaken deb which causes tonnes of issues.

please see this question:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/90556

Flash is on the repositories. In ubuntu it is MASSIVELY rare to go to a site and download stuff, most comes from the repositories which is why it is a lot easier to use Ubuntu than most other distributions

When you have used that guide and got square can you please give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swg

Thanks

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kai (kaihelen-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

thanks for the help it educated me in not going to a site and downloading stuff. I tried to follow your advice which was a little alien to me in the end I decided to reinstall complete system and have now got better insight in ubunto and learnt not to touch what I dont understand. It will be worth my while to learn a lot more.
thku vmuch kai

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kai (kaihelen-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

still learning