Still that does not mean that the installation process for flash
cannot be automated, and older gOS versions (except gOS 1.0), all had
the flash player pre-installed!

At the very least I would expect the YouTube launcher give a warning
what to do the first time you try to start it.

The current situation is very user unfriendly, and gOS 1.0 got some
very bad press for not making it easier to install flash, or having it
pre-installed. And in that case it was actually -much- easier to get
flash because Firefox opened a popup, saying as much as "click here to
install flash", but even that was too problematic, because of the
large message YouTube displays with (for Linux) bad advise to go to
the Adobe site to download a flash player, if you tried that instead
of just accepting the firefox proposal, because you failed to see the
pop-up for example, then you were given install instructions on the
Adobe site that did not work at all.
In this case not even the Firefox popup is present, so this time its
even more user unfriendly, so I expect more bad press about this
problem..

I have never seen a "license" that I must accept when installing the
flash plugin, and I doubt it will be asked when using the apt-get
install method.

Maybe Adobe has made their "conditions of use" stricter, but the
situation as is, is unacceptable for the larger public, and at the
very least instructions on what to do to get YouTube to work should be
provided automatically, or trivially easy to find.

On 27 sep, 20:49, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Flash player requires additional license that must be accepted, hence
> it can't be legally loaded by default.
>
> Just fire up a command line and
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
>
> That should take care of any codec problem you may be having.
>
> Mint can preinstall cause they are restricted by US copyright law,
> being based out of Ireland I believe.
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