Ubuntu 10.10 stopped playing videos and music but plays a tune when booting up

Windows Media Center was previously installed and when Microsoft Updates were made (14 or them) the computer restarted but Windows would not boot up again (even using Last Known Good etc.) so I ordered a Ubuntu 10.4 CD and loaded it on the system.

I now have Ubuntu 10.10 and it has been working very well until two days ago, when the videos and music stopped playing.

Try typing in the following commands (applications>system>terminal):

aptitude show gnash
aptitude show flashplugin-installer

then paste the output here.

The information requested is below:

> To: <email address hidden>
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> Subject: Re: [Question #133215]: Ubuntu 10.10 stopped playing videos and music but plays a tune when booting up
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:17:22 +0000
>
> Your question #133215 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/133215
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> mycae requested for more information:
> Try typing in the following commands (applications>system>terminal):
>
> aptitude show gnash
> aptitude show flashplugin-installer
>
> then paste the output here.

aaron@aaron-desktop:~$ aptitude show gnash
Package: gnash
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.8.8-5ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 504k
Depends: gnash-common (= 0.8.8-5ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
         libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.21.6), libgl1-mesa-glx |
         libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0),
         libgtkglext1, libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), libx11-6
Breaks: gnash-opengl (< 0.8.8~)
Description: GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
 GNU Gnash is a free GPL'd SWF player. It runs as a standalone application on
 either the desktop or embedded devices, or may be used as a plugin for several
 popular browsers. It supports playing media from a disk or streaming over a
 network connection.

 GNU Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8
 and v9. SWF v10 is not supported by GNU Gnash.

 Included in the Gnash is an XML based messaging system, as specified in the SWF
 specification. This lets a SWF animation communicate over a TCP/IP socket, and
 parse the incoming XML message. This lets an animation be a remote control for
 other devices or applications.

 This package includes the standalone GTK+-based player that use AGG as the
 rendering backend.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

aaron@aaron-desktop:~$ aptitude show flashplugin-installer
Package: flashplugin-installer
State: not installed
Version: 10.1.102.64ubuntu0.10.10.1
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 188k
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, libgtk2.0-0, fontconfig, libxt6, libxext6,
         libatk1.0-0, libc6, libcairo2, libexpat1, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6,
         libglib2.0-0, libice6, libpango1.0-0, libpng12-0, libsm6, libx11-6,
         libxau6, libxcursor1, libxdmcp6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1,
         libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g, libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.0~beta3),
         libnspr4-0d (>= 4.7.1~beta2)
Recommends: libasound2-plugins (>= 1.0.16)
Suggests: firefox, xulrunner-1.9, firefox-3.0, konqueror-nsplugins,
          x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu,
          ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs (>= 1:1.0.1-5)
Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (< 6), flashplugin-nonfree (<
           10.0.22.87ubuntu2~), libflashsupport, xfs (< 1:1.0.1-5)
Replaces: flashplugin (< 6), flashplugin-nonfree
Provides: flashplugin-nonfree
Description: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
 Downloads and Installs the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The Adobe Flash Player
 plugin supports playing of media and other dynamic content online.

 The Adobe Flash Player plugin will work with a range of web-browsers including,
 limited to:
 * Firefox
 * Chromium
 * SeaMonkey
 * Iceweasel
 * Iceape
 * Galeon
 * Epiphany
 * Konqueror

 WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe Flash Player plugin to
 be downloaded from www.adobe.com. The distribution license of the Adobe Flash
 Player plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package
 implies that you have accepted the terms of that license.
Homepage: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9

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Marco;

I entered the commands and pressed Enter and got the following:

aaron@aaron-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove browser-plugin-gnash adobe-flalshplugin gnash gnash-common swfdec-mozilla libswfdec-0.8.0; sudo dpkg -P flashplugin-installer libswfdec-0.8-0; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for aaron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package adobe-flalshplugin
E: Unable to locate package libswfdec-0.8.0
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libswfdec-0.8.0'
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove flashplugin-installer which isn't installed.
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove libswfdec-0.8-0 which isn't installed.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ca-certificates-java* default-jre* default-jre-headless*
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao* java-common* libaccess-bridge-java*
  libaccess-bridge-java-jni* openjdk-6-jre* openjdk-6-jre-headless*
  openjdk-6-jre-lib* openoffice.org-filter-binfilter*
  openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev* openoffice.org-java-common*
  openoffice.org-officebean* ttf-sil-gentium* ttf-sil-gentium-basic*
  tzdata-java*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
After this operation, 131MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

> To: <email address hidden>
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> Subject: RE: [Question #133215]: Ubuntu 10.10 stopped playing videos and music but plays a tune when booting up
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 04:19:08 +0000
>
> Your question #133215 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/133215
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> Please try this:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/132124
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Marco;

Thank you for the help, I can now play videos and music again.

The suggestion solved the issue.

Best Regards,

Aaron