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Ubuntu 8.04 - No Sound In Firefox Flash, Trying To Upgrade To Flash Player 10

Asked by jackson

Hello all,

I'm not a technical person, but am trying hard regarding this issue.

I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04, 32-bit, i-386. Love the distribution, but the Flash player in Firefox Beta 3 v5 runs video, but no sound. After reading through other messages in forums and bug reports, I downloaded the Flash player beta 10 -- flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.1.218ubuntu1_i386.deb -- and am trying to install it using gDebi - but I am getting dependency messages for libflashsupport and another package. But libflashsupport is uninstalled in my default Ubuntu 8.04 (as is the other libdev? package), as it was causing instability and crashes in Flash Player 9 due to PulseAudio being used now in Ubuntu, per the developer threads.

So do I have to install the dependency packages first to try the Flash Beta 10 solution? Should I install them?

Any help would be appreciated. If the solution is command line based, I would most appreciate it if each line of command is included.

Thanks again,

jwwjr

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blooper009@gmail.com (blooper009) said : 		#1

can you help me to install my cam camera with sound and pickture

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jackson (jack-whitley) said : 		#2

I'm not sure who <email address hidden> is, but his response is not related to my question.

Any help regarding my original inquiry would be most appreciated.

Thanks

jwwjr

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Michael Nagel (nailor) said : 		#3

using flash player 9 and installing libflashsupport should work for most users. libflashsupport is a workaround to avoid the problems that the flash/pulse combination seems to have. to install libflashsupport, run in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install libflashsupport

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jake707 (jake-bf2142) said : 		#4

I had this exact problem. installing libflashsupport worked for me. Thanks! Saved me from a lot of work!

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tanke (cbaiz012000) said : 		#5

I'm having this same problem with Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 6 amd64. libflashsupport is installed

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goto (gotolaunchpad) said : 		#6

I had installed Flash player 10 beta and libflashsupport but still in silence... WHY?

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Rob van der Vaart (acdc19) said : 		#7

I'm a new user and I think ubuntu is great. But I have also the problem with sound. I installed the latest firefox and flashplayer 10 , but I have no sound in Firefox. I've updated the OS to 8.04 LTS. Solution would be great
Regards,
Rob van der Vaart

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#8

@Rob van der Vaart

Please don't append a new question on a already answered or marked as solved question.
Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or answered questions are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you

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Liviu Beraru (beraru-liviu) said : 		#9

Had the same problem in Kubuntu Jaunty Beta.

liviu@linorien:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel
liviu@linorien:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I just created a new file .asoundrc in my home directory:
liviu@linorien:~$ touch .asoundrc

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hyper_ch (bugs-launchpad-net-roleplayer) said : 		#10

Liviu Beraru

Sound plays now for you in firefox?

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Liviu Beraru (beraru-liviu) said : 		#11

Yes, it works now. I did nothing else then creating that file.

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hyper_ch (bugs-launchpad-net-roleplayer) said : 		#12

doesn't help... still no sound in firefox and vlc.

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Alexei (jleexa) said : 		#13

I install Ubuntu 8.04.3 and have also problem.
I have solved the problem the following method :
sudo apt-get install libflashsupport adobe-flashplugin

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Ken cobb (kscobb) said : 		#14

Go to (get.adobe.com/flashplayer/)

Download (tar.gz for linux)
Save to desktop
Right click on file (install flash player_10_linux tar.gz)
select (extract here)
that will open a file named (install_flash_player_10_linux)
right click on the file and open it
that will open 2 files
right click flash player installer
click run in terminal
instructions in terminal to install

you may have to reboot 2 times to make it work
This is a easiest fix for flash that I have found
hope it works for you

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