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firefox-3.0 package

Cannot play flash video using Firefox...

Asked by cbias812

ok installed ubuntu,and i'm still learning about the os,and i went onto youtube,and i cannot watch anything on there any site with content has"The big play icon on the screen" but when i click it,nothing happens... i downloaded the plugins,use synaptic package manager,everything,but nothing happens...what ami doing wrong...can install any kind of drivers for my dazzle dvc100,i can't even use my dazzle installation disk because it is in windows format,so i have no video or drivers for my dazzle capture device,and i do not what to do...can anyone help me???

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you want video card drivers we need to know what video chip you have

Can you please provide the output of:

uname -a; sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

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cbias812 (young-blaze713) said : 		#2

ii adobe-flashplugin 10.0.32.18-1jaunty1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10
ii flashplugin-installer 10.0.32.18ubuntu0.9.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii gnash 0.8.5-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player
ii gnash-common 0.8.5-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - common files/librari
ii mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.5-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla a
ii libswfdec-0.8-0 0.8.4-1 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
ii swfdec-mozilla 0.8.2-1ubuntu1 Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Fla

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Oj you have done what SO many people do. If flash doesn't work. Don't start loading more plugins in as it will achieve nothing

You only want ONE flash plugin or you will get no flash at all.

here is the command to get you righted:

sudo apt-get --purge adobe-flashplugin flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

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Srinandan (kiminan321go) said : 		#4

The above solution didn't solve the problem though it cleared 78mb of space as unwanted plug ins were removed

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Ok can you run:

uname -a; sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

You missed the uname output of the command also.

What rowser do you use is also useful.

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