Oh, sorry my bad, I was tired yesterday, I meant Adobe. It is free, but 1 have to accept an End User Licence Agreement... but I tried 1 dist that had it preinstalled, dont remember wich tough, maybe Mint...
On 27 Sep, 12:41, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the flash-plugin -is- "nonfree", that is, it isn't open source, > and the flash -player- that is used by youtube, might very well be > develped by YouTube, but you do not actually install that, you install > the flash plugin, that enables you tu run content like players, or > othe flash based stuff. Adobe owns the flash-plugin, but I think you > can freely install it. > > Perhaps the is a legal reason why the flash-plugin cannot be pre- > installed on gOS, but previous versions of gOS did just that. but > anyway gOS could have used the YouTube launcher to check a first time > use (or the presence of the flash-plugin) to ask the user if he wants > to install the plugin. Or at the very least give a message explaining > what do to get the plugin. > > On 27 sep, 07:02, LogiMAX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the flashplayer is owned by Youtube. I think that it can't be > > installed by default because of copyright issues, bu twhat do I > > know... please correct me if Im wrong... > > > On 26 Sep, 22:36, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I could find "flashplugin-nonfree" in Synaptic, and it wasn't > > > installed. After installing it YouTube works. > > > > I still think it is a mistake not installing it per default, as many > > > first time users are bound to struggle with this. > > > The first gOS was lamented for having the same problem. > > > > Here are the steps to install the flash-player, DO NOT FOLLOW THE > > > INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY YOUTUBE! > > > > (the steps below might not be what you see literally, as I'm using a > > > non English version of gOS., but it should be close) > > > > * Open System preferences>management and start Synaptic packet- > > > management. > > > > * Enter your password. > > > > * Click on the top left "reload" button to make sure gOS uses the > > > latest available packages > > > > * Click on the search button and enter "adobe flashplugin" > > > > * Synaptic should find "flashplugin-nonfree" > > > > * Right-click on the box in front of it, and choose "mark for install" > > > > * now click on the "execute" button, the middle button of the five > > > starting with reload and ending with search > > > > Now synaptic should install the flash-plugin, and afterwards you > > > should be able to watch youtube movies. > > > > On 26 sep, 16:41, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The player -should- have been installed per default, as in the beta, > > > > but Ill check in Synaptic when I get a chance. > > > > > On 26 sep, 11:24, xenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Do you have flash player installed? My new installation did not > > > > > contain flash player and I had to install it. > > > > > > On Sep 26, 3:15 am, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Oh, after I installed, (which wasn't that easy, I had to manually > > > > > > remove all existing partitions -and- reboot afterwards, or the > > > > > > install > > > > > > would fail, and when it finally worked it still gave errors while > > > > > > removing packages) I got an automatic upgrade. 102 Upgrades, and > > > > > > over > > > > > > 100MB! So I had a little hope it would fix this problem, but > > > > > > unfortunately it didn't! > > > > > > > Still no YouTube.... > > > > > > > On 26 sep, 03:00, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > In the beta YouTube worked fine, but unfortunately not in the > > > > > > > final > > > > > > > version! > > > > > > > Why, and what is the easiest way to fix this... > > > > > > > > <sigh> This time the launcher DOES work, only YouTube itself > > > > > > > doesn't. > > > > > > > From gOS 1.0t on, gOS always seems to have -some- problem with > > > > > > > YouTube. Its seems to suffer from one of murphy's laws, in > > > > > > > particular > > > > > > > the "conservation of problems" law. > > > > > > > > I know better than to follow the advise YouTube is giving me, on > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > page, that is to "download a newer version of Adobe flash > > > > > > > player", but > > > > > > > this time Firefox does not pop up a "quick fix", and javascript is > > > > > > > already on (Edit>preferences>Content) so what should I do ???? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
