I already tried both and SWFdec doesn't even appear under Synaptic, which is what I meant when I said it had disappeared into the innards of the firefox configuration. Evidently, just like Alan said, I shall need some code, to find it from the terminal.
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:34 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > On 13/03/2009 18:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube > > videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two > > plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them > > can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox> Tools> Add-ons, > > namely Gnash 0.8.4, but the other one seems to have vanished into the > > Firefox configuration without possibility of disabling or uninstalling, > > namely SWFdec 0.8.0, and I would like to get rid of both of them and try > > again, since right now any attempt to run embedded videos just hangs the > > browser, so that I have to use a forced close on it. I have not tried to > > alter or remove the video player utilities that came with the Ubuntu > > 8.10 LiveCD, which is otherwise running perfectly. So, any advice on how > > to roll back these (or all) add-ons and plug-ins I myself have installed > > today would be great. Thanks. > > > Someone might be able to better advise (I'm not on an Ubuntu machine at > the moment) but you could either look in Add/Remove Programs (which is > on the Applications Menu) or under Synaptic (which if I remember > correctly is on the System Menu under Administration. When you run > either of them you will be asked to enter your password, just enter your > normal password you used to login (same as what Firefox would have asked > for). > > Hopefully this will help... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto > > What you need to do is search for the application, so in this case > SWFdec and Gnash (you'll probably need to search for them > individually). They should hopefully come up with a green box next to > them. If you right click on them you should be able to select them for > removal (not sure if you'd need to do a complete removal, I'd try just > the mark for removal first) and then click the Apply button. It should > then remove SWFdec and Gnash from your system. > > Hope this helps. > > Rob > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
