adobe flash plugins crashes

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

I'm having the same problem on Hardy Heron. Looks like the hardy-updates repository now has 3.6.6 and it got pulled to my machine yesterday.

For my system:

$ uname -a; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf
Linux penguin 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Thu May 27 00:16:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
ii adobe-flashplugin 10.1.53.64-1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10

Ok you don't want that package. Looks like you downloaded it from the Adobe site which is wrong. This command will straighten you out:

sudo apt-get --purge remove adobe-flashplugin; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Should be fine.

sorry actionparsnip
i did what you said but the problem is definately still there.
please can anyone help?
regards

ok can you rerun the first command to verify all is well.

If so can you run the browser from terminal, when it crashes there will be intelligent output in the terminal which may help.

I was unable to install the adobe-flashplugin package.

However, the flashplugin-nonfree package is failing:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  konqueror-nsplugins libflashsupport msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 162334 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.1.218+really9.0.277.0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+really9.0.277.0ubuntu1) ...
Downloading...
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

I confirmed that when I run firefox, the flash plugin is not found. When going to youtube, I get the message "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe." When I put "about:plugins" in the firefox URL bar, it does not claim any flash player is available.

This is the current status of my system:

Linux penguin 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Thu May 27 00:16:49 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
ii flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.1.218+really9.0.277.0ubuntu1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

Sounds like you have a proxy setup at some point but have not removed it from apt's config. I suggest you remove this or you will get issues.

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

Can you also run:

firefox

in terminal (as I recommended) then wait for the crash. Then copy the output and paste it here.

My environment variable http_proxy got set to http://:8080:/ somehow... unsetting that variable allows the package to be installed and flash now runs fine in firefox.

I ran gconf-editor, and under system -> http_proxy, the "use_http_proxy" box was checked. I unchecked it and now new terminal windows don't get that variable set. I have never messed with the proxy before, so I have no idea how it got set.

Thanks.

-Jay

np bro

Please mark as solved if it is ok.

I think sun_tzu will have to mark it "solved" as he is the one who started this thread. I'm hoping his problem is the same as what I had.

Just noticed a typo in one of my posts above: I was ABLE to uninstall the adobe-flashplugin package. It was the installation that was getting hosed up by the http_proxy environment variable.

Actionparsnip

1. I definately had a proxy setup and marked no proxy in the menu (but this did not solve the problem

2. as you suggested I ran firefox from the terminal but had no intelligent output. On contrary firefox opened.

3. In aubout:balnk from URL bar i see this
    File: libflashplayer.so
    Version:
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

but still have the problem.
please help me 'cause I am desperate
thanx

Hmm seems thats an old version

ok try this:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree; mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

visit this page and grab the tar.gz and save to the desktop:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for_Linux_(.tar.gz)

Then run:

cd ~/.mozilla/plugins; mv ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz .; tar zxvf ./install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz; rm ./install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

Should give you flash 10.1

Give that a whirl. The older flash plugin may cause issues but lets see.

thanks that solved it

Thanks Actionparsnip! That worked for me as well. I had to perform 1 extra step. libflashplayer.so had to be copied to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This may have been because firefox was running when I followed your steps but not sure. In any case flash is now working and I can quit messing with chrome :)