Okay, I have a flashplayer-plugin again, and YouTube is working fine again! What's more, I now have "Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12" running, as shown in the Add-ons menu of Firefox.
This is what I did; I found -this- forum post in the ubuntu fora: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006739&highlight=flashplugin-nonfree I followed the advise of Wolfen69 (the second post), and went to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer where I chose (using the "select version to download" pulldown menu) the ".deb for Ubuntu 8.04+" option, and followed the instructions. That worked fine! It seems that adobe is trying to force everybody to install the version on their site, instead of from a repository, well, it doesn't say "flashplayer-nonfree" for nothing! Flash is a commercial product, even if its free (as in "free beer"). On 10 dec, 02:14, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm...the flash-player plugin has always worked, and this issue has > completely zero to do with "design faults". Scroll wheels work fine in > gOS > If the mouse settings do not have any "scrollwheel settings", then why > is that a "design fault"? > Seems to be more an opinion on what you expect to see in the "mouse > settings menu" than a "design fault". > > It almost seems the plugin has been removed from repositories, but > lets not jump to conclusions, this needs further investigating. > > here are the results of some tests I did: > Browsing to YouTube and checking if video's still play (I have > installed the flash plugin shortly after I installed gOS 3) > Its working fine. > Re-installing "flashplugin-nonfree" (version 9.0.124.Ubuntu2) > seemingly went without a hitch, just searched for "flash plugin", > found the package in-between "flashblock" and "gnash", marked for > reinstall and applied (pressed "apply"). > Browsing to YouTube and checking if video's still play Its still > working fine. > > Re running Synaptic, and de-installing "flashplugin-nonfree" (this is > a jump of faith, if the repositories do not contain "flashplugin- > nonfree", I too will loose the ability to watch YouTube,). > The deletion went fine, I don't have the "flashplugin-nonfree" > anymore. > Browsing to YouTube, when trying to watch a video I get the feared > message that I have disabled "javascript", or have an older version of > Adobe Flash player, and I get the stupid link to the adobe site, that > is only useful for Windows but puts all Linux users totally on the > wrong leg, DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK! > Instead I again run Synaptic, once again search for "flash plugin", > mark "flashplugin-nonfree" for installation and click on apply. It > finishes successfully, I close Synaptics again, and run Firefox > again, > but hold-on, I still get the missing flash plugin message, and > Firefox's Tools->Add-ons does not list the presence of a Flash- > plugin!!! > Worry...me worry? Nope! (I still have my trust Mac you see) > Lets reboot, no, no change, still no You-Tube. > Well, what now, lets try if a "complete removal", then a reboot, then > a re-install will help, I run the install, and click on the "details" > widgets to open the error console, so I can see what is happening. > What I see there confirms my suspicion! > Synaptics does a FTP download from "ftpdownload.macromedia.com", > (which > resolves to the IP address 88.221.34.70), but the site returns a 404 > Error (file not found), and the details console reports ; > > "download failed" > "The Flash plugin is NOT installed." > > This does not look good! > There is a small chance the repositories database has changed, so I do > a "reload", but is doesn't help, I still get a 404 error. > > So there you have it, it seems that macromedia has removed the flash- > player plugin file from their FTP site! > > No wonder the install does not work. > > Ill investigate further to see if the problem is widespread, and maybe > I can find a fix, an alternative install source perhaps. > > Later... > > On 10 dec, 00:52, Selwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > HELLO > > I am having the same problem. > > I have followed the on screen prompts and tried 3 different flash > > players , tried to update it through snap picks and it still won't > > work. > > I think this is more a design fault like the lack of scroll wheel > > lines in the mouse settings. > > Cheers > > Dave > > > On Dec 9, 4:10 pm, csn00000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am also having this exact problem. I installed about a week ago gOS > > > 3.0 gadgets and have not been able to watch any videos on the > > > internet. I too have done the same things as BehaviorKelton but no > > > luck. There has to be something to get it to work right? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
