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Can't view YouTube flash videos on a Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits

Asked by Kiran Johny

I am new to Ubuntu and can't play youtube videos in my OS . I get 'An error occurred .Please try again later' as a message. I tried installing flash but doesn't work. I have a 64 bit ubuntu 10.04 .Please help me with detailed answers.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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Kiran Johny (kiranjacobjohny) said : 		#2

Dear actionparsnip,

           Here is what you asked for. I hope you will be able to solve my problem . Please note that one of your commands did not give a response on my terminal. Please forgive the dirty format .

*************************************************************************************************************************
 uname -a
  Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 05:14:15 UTC 2010
 x86_64 GNU/Linux
**************************************************************************************************************************
 lsb_release -a
 No LSB modules are available.
 Distributor ID: Ubuntu
 Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
 Release: 10.04
 Codename: lucid

*************************************************************************************************************************
 dpkg -l | grep flash
  <..........no output.........................>

************************************************************************************************************************

  dpkg -l | grep gnash
 ii gnash 0.8.7-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player
 ii gnash-common 0.8.7-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - common files/librari
ii mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.7-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla a

************************************************************************************************************************

dpkg -l | grep swf
ii libswfdec-0.8-0 0.8.4-1build1 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
ii swfdec-mozilla 0.8.2-1ubuntu2 Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Fla

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

The command was ONE command and was really made to be ran all at once. In future please don't break commands up.

ok this will make you right:

sudo apt-get --purge remove mozilla-plugin-gnash gnash-common libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

All set.

If you want 64bit flash 10.0 which wil not use nspluginwrapper, you can use:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-nonfree

Will also work :)

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Kiran Johny (kiranjacobjohny) said : 		#4

Thank you now it's working alright.

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Kiran Johny (kiranjacobjohny) said : 		#5

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.