I gave up on figuring out what was wrong. It was just taking too much of my time. I did a new Ubuntu installation and let it update and upgrade itself to version 8.04. Finally I installed Flash and now everything works. I'm disappointed that my Ubuntu experience seems so much like Windows!
Thanks for all the help - Joe On Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:32 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:32:24 -0500 >From: Leland F. Jackson, CPA >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: >Subject: Re: [NF] Ubuntu installation Flash player problem > >Below is what firefox on my Fedora 8 is showing, and videos on >metacafe.com seem to play just fine: > >#---------------------------- >per about:plugins: > > > Shockwave Flash > > File name: libflashplayer.so > Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124 > >MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled >application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes >application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes > > >#----------------------------- >per /help/about/: > >Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0 > >#---------------------------- > >It could be some config problem in your Ubuntu beyond flash; > >Below is a link that I use to complete my install of Fedora 8. Before >implementing the tips and tricks, which can easily be copied and pasted >into a command line, very little worked in the way of audio/video. >After installing all the relevant plugins, just about everything worked >including playing CD movies. > >http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php > >Regards, > >LelandJ > > > >Joe Yoder wrote: >> That helped. >> >> In my case the Flashplayer file is at /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree and >> firefox is at /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1. When I modified the command line >> to match the link was created. (my first) Now about:plugins reports that >> Shockwave Flash is installed and enabled. >> >> The problem is that it does not work. Some sites like metacafe.com throw >> up a black window that never shows the video and others like cnn.com >> recognize that flash is not working and offer to install it. Now what? >> >> TIA - Joe >> >> On Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:57 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:57:31 -0500 >>> From: Leland F. Jackson, CPA >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> cc: >>> Subject: Re: [NF] Ubuntu installation Flash player problem >>> >>> Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >>> >>>> You need to locate where your latest Flashplayer files are. Delete any >>>> older Flashplayer files. Then you need to copy, or create a new >>>> symbolic link to the the new Flashplayer files. Your new Flashplayer >>>> files, or symbolic links, should be placed in the plugins directory >>>> under the main firefox directory. For example, if the Flashplayer files >>>> were installed in "/usr/lib/flash-plugin/", and your plugins directory >>>> was "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0, then you could create a symbolic link as >>>> follows: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Whoops, it looks like the line creating the symbolic link wrapped when >>> sent, but it should be only one line, or you could enter the line as >>> follows in the command window, for example. The backslash is for >>> formatting and indicates a continuation of a single line. >>> >>> ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so \ >>> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/libflashplayer.so >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> LelandJ >>> >>>> ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so >>>> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/libflashplayer.so >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> LelandJ >>>> >>>> >>>> Joe Yoder wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I am getting my feet wet in Ubuntu and seem to have a situation where >>>>> Firefox and Flashplayer are somhow out of sync. I should probably do a >>>>> complete reinstall of the OS as one does when running Windows but what >>>>> would I learn from that? >>>>> >>>>> I had the system uninstall Firefox and then reinstall it. I installed >>>>> the Flashplayer 10 beta without seeing any reported errors but when I do >>>>> the about:plugins in Firefox there is no mention of FlashPlayer. I'm >>>>> wishing for a checklist of the full paths of the files that need to be in >>>>> place for flashplayer to work. Perhaps there are other conditions that >>>>> can keep it from working. I found some references to a .dat file that >>>>> needs to be removed but have never located that file on my installation. >>>>> >>>>> Any advice welcome. >>>>> >>>>> TIA- Joe >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >>>>> multipart/alternative >>>>> text/plain (text body -- kept) >>>>> text/html >>>>> --- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
