I am not able to install a youtube plugin

That's the wrong procedure.

Please try the following installation procedure instead:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-10-1-beta-in-ubuntu.html

Very wrong. Flash installation is done via the repo, not via the Adobe site which I am guessing you have incorrectly downloaded from.

Can you also give the output of:

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

Thanks.

Hey Mark,
I tried the link given by you, but in the ubuntugeek.com they have given a link to download flash but the link isn't working.. Now what to do..

You still haven't given the output of the command. This will help me give you a big command to get your flash sorted out. There is no such thing as a "youtube plugin". You tube simply uses flash + javascript.

Hey Actionparsnip,the outputs of the command you have given are

dpkg -I | grep flash
dpkg-deb: --info needs a .deb filename argument

dpkg -I | grep swf
dpkg-deb: --info needs a .deb filename argument

dpkg -I | grep gnash
dpkg-deb: --info needs a .deb filename argument

are you using -l (spoken "ell") or -i (spoken "eye") ?

Swamy is using capital i instead of small L in the command, which is incorrect.

This is because actionparsnip's command was not copy-pasted from the browser into the Linux terminal...

If you copy-paste Swamy's command from the webbrowser into the Terminal and then actionparsnip's command, you easily notice that the 2 commands are different....

Hey actionparsnip, yesterday i used capital i, instead of i if i use small l(ell) nothing happens..

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

The '-l |' bits would be spoken "minus ell pipe"

You can paste the command to the terminal and press ENTER, then copy the output and paste here as an update.

Hey actionparsnip i have copy pasted the commands as you said and also copy pasted its outputs from the terminal..
swamy@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep flash
swamy@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep swf
swamy@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep gnash

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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