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Replacing Adobe Flash Plug-in with Gnash in Firefox

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How do I replace the Adobe Flash Player plugin in Firefox with Gnash so I can watch YouTube videos and such with Gnash?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer; sudo apt-get -clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-gnash

You will then be using Gnash

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Theatre-X (theatrex) said : 		#2

When I entered the command above that removes the flash plugin, the terminal spit this out:

gogeden@Katormix:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer;
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-installer is not installed, so not removed
Package flashplugin-nonfree is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

O_o

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok how did you install Adobe's flash?

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Theatre-X (theatrex) said : 		#4

I believe I used the Ubuntu Restricted Extras.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

ok then it's no longer installed. I also suggest you run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove ubuntu-restricted-extras

This will ONLY remove the metapackage and NOT the contents. This will stop updates later making flash not work. You can now run:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-gnash

And get gnash

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