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9.04 Remix Add/Remove App not working and Flash 10 issue

Asked by mlowerre

Installed ubuntu netbook remix on EEE1000, wiped off Xandros. All happy, but

Add/Remove Application does not list anything when you select another option in Show, and won't list the initial list again that it showed when I opened the programme for the first time. The lists just stay blank, message displayed "There is no matching application available". Yes, I have selected 'All'.

Problem started after I tried to install Adobe Flash 10 from deb file in terminal and it all went pear shaped from there. Firefox doesn't even recognise Flash Player other than two versions of shockwave. Test on adobe web site shows it thinks I'm running on Windows XP with Adobe Flash Player 9.

WTF? Any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

try:

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

If the deb installs the flash as a different name, uninstall that too before reinstalling. The EEE uses a 32bit app so technically you can download the tar.gz file and extract the .so file to:

~/.mozilla/plugins

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mlowerre (mlowerre) said : 		#2

Thank you for your answer.

I did what you suggested in the first paragraph.

The bad news:

Add/Remove Applications keeps having the same problem as before.

But:

 It solved the problem of Firefox not recognising Flash, about:plugins detects flash now, however the .so file firefox is looking at now is not in ~/.mozilla/plugins where the required .so now lives. But instead it looks at the /usr/lib/swfdecmozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so and usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so

Can I just rm the files and replace them with libflashplayer.so?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

you can mv the file you have already to the new locations

http://priyank.co.in/readarticle.php?article_id=21

will help. Let me know how it goes.

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mlowerre (mlowerre) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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mlowerre (mlowerre) said : 		#5

sudo mv /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.old
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so

That bit solved the issue of Flash 10 in ubuntu remix.

Add/Remove Application are still messed up but I think I'll leave that for now.

Many thanks.