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flashplugin-nonfree package

update ubuntu 8.10 flash stopped working

Asked by Chuck

Yesterday, I did a normal software update, it had been a while, (I am running ubuntu 8.10) and flash stopped working. Firefox (3.0.6) says I need to install a flash plugin. Today there was an update to flashplugin-nonfree which I installed, it did not help. I am running 64 bit. I have tried totally uninstalling flashplugin-nonfree and reinstalling (a couple of times), did not help. I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox, did not help. I rebooted, did not help. I looked in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it seems that the flashplugin-nonfree installs flashplugin-alternative.so. I have searched for an answer and have not found one. Any ideas?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hmm its a known problem ......... Refer these links

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=987622

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/262693

http://www.irishsilicon.com/2008/11/fix-for-flash-audio-not-workin.html

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Chuck (vidar512) said : 		#2

Thank you for the reply, but those links did not seem to be help. However, I noticed an answer about this same issue in question 62240, the solution there was

> sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
> sudo apt-get autoremove (removes nspluginwrapper and others)
> then go to
> usr/lib/firefox/plugins
> usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> and in each case, remove the symbolic links in the plugin directories pointing to nspluginwrapper and put the downloaded > libflashplayer.so instead. Then it works!

I downloaded the 64 bit libflashplayer.so from Adobe, followed the above directions and then it worked.

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Larry Abee (larryabee) said : 		#3

I'm also having this problem, I am using ubuntu 8.10 (32bit) and after that update flash stopped working, I uninstalled and re-installed the package still not working, did what I used to do when this problem happened (because it is not the first time it happens) uninstalled then went to a flash enabled site like youtube and installed flash from firefox, still not working, reboot doesn't help either and I have followed the steps on the posts here and still no functioning flash plugin.

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Larry Abee (larryabee) said : 		#4

Found a simple solution

run 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree'

now flash works fine