flashplayer-installer NOT!

[rogue417]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

I followed Vinny's directions to paste the following into terminal:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list; sudo apt-get -q update; sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring; sudo apt-get -q update

Which led me to

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Got an error; tried this -

sudo apt-get install -f

Which leads me back to another point Vinny raised; did I accept the license agreement? This comes up in a grey box against a blue screen. Apart from the up down toggle I find nothing to click that would indicate I agree. I am at this screen now. how do I act to indicate agreement, and finish the installation process?

[Detonate]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

If I remember correctly, just hit the Tab key until the Accept button is highlighted, then press enter.

[ubersoft]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

Here is a pretty simple method for installing a native 64 bit flash player in Kubuntu:

Go here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

This is the alpha of the 64 bit version of flashplayer 10 that adobe is working on. It's only alpha but I have found it to be a LOT more stable than the 32-bit version running through nspluginwrapper.

extract the .so file from the compressed package.

Go to the .mozilla directory (it's in the top level of your home directory).

If there isn't a plugins directory in your .mozilla directory, create it.

Move the .so file into the plugins directory.

Firefox will be able to use this. So will Konqueror. I don't know about Opera (I think it will).

[dibl]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

You can install it in 64 bit, but it's still the 32 bit version of flash, isn't it? It installs nspluginwrapper and then the 32 bit version, which (in my experience) crashes a lot in firefox and forces you to close and reload the browser to get it started again...

I think the first part (32-bit flash) is probably true, but it's been running flawlessly here since 9.04 Beta which is what I installed. I can't swear Firefox has never crashed (wasn't lately if it did), but I run Firefox continuously and it works pretty well, really. I think BBC videos are the only thing that don't just pop up and play -- you gotta fiddle with Realplayer and vlc to get that working, as I recall.

[ubersoft]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

When I used the 32 bit version it's not Firefox that crashes, but flash itself. When that happens, all flash items turn into blank white boxes that don't do anything useful, and I have to restart Firefox in order to get the actual flash videos back (it's usually flash videos that trigger this, though occasionally it has happened with other flash applications).

[Detonate]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

I am using the version from the repos, and very seldom ever have a problem viewing flash on my 64 bit install. The problem occasionally when npviewer.bin, a flash component, continues to run after closing the flash. I think this is a javascript error, not a flash error, probably caused by bad code on the page being viewed.

[vinnywright]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

I'd try ubersoft's idea if you can get a native 64 bit app working it would be better than the 32 bitwork around witch is what's being done with the current ver.

and yes if you diddent exept the licence agrement the errors may be the resalt of flash telling the system ...RUN I cant run nobody exepted my licence

VINNY

[rogue417]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

Tab. Tab? Whadda concept! Indeed, I tab and am carried to a Yes / No option. I choose yes (go figure) and receive the following -

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package odbcinst1debian1.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `sun-java6-jre' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
88962 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking odbcinst1debian1 (from .../odbcinst1debian1_2.2.11-16build3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package unixodbc.
Unpacking unixodbc (from .../unixodbc_2.2.11-16build3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package sun-java6-bin.
Unpacking sun-java6-bin (from .../sun-java6-bin_6-13-1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace sun-java6-jre 6-13-1 (using .../sun-java6-jre_6-13-1_all.deb) ...
sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted
Unpacking replacement sun-java6-jre ...
Selecting previously deselected package gsfonts-x11.
Unpacking gsfonts-x11 (from .../gsfonts-x11_0.21_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'

Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'

Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package'

Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'

Setting up odbcinst1debian1 (2.2.11-16build3) ...

Setting up unixodbc (2.2.11-16build3) ...

Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.21) ...

Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-13-1) ...

Setting up sun-java6-jre (6-13-1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
mbdrennan@ubuntu:~$

Nothing on flashplayer, at least not that I can see. Now wasn't this supposed to install Flashplayer? It seems I have Java runtime installed but where is flashplayer? BTW I still can't bring up Hulu.

[dibl]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

I think you've got multiple issues and confusions going on there. Let's sort them:

1.

(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `sun-java6-jre' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

Looks like like all of sun-java-jre is not downloaded. Non-fatal, and non-related to flash.

2.

Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'

Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' ...

A bunch of bogus complaints related to gsfonts, I think. Non-fatal, and non-related to flash.


3. Does your package manager show flash installed? Look for flashplugin-installer, ver. 10.0.22.87ubuntu2.

4. Does your Firefox browser, Tools>Add-ons>Plugins show Shockwave Flash ver. 10.0.r22 installed? If yes, you have flash installed. If no, you don't.

[rogue417]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

I checked Add Ons and it was not listed. Rather than continue with apt-get I switched to Adept. The plugin installer you list was available, along with a transitional file and one other. These I installed from Adept. When I closed and reopened Firefox Shockwave Flash was listed to Add Ons! Thank you! I thought to treat myself to some Hulu, but no audio came through. Perhaps I'm missing an audio plugin? Wouldn't Shockwave handle audio? Apparently I cannot play MP3s in Amarok either. But didn't I just agree to the licenses for those restricted extras? >

[dibl]

Re: flashplayer-installer NOT!

Wouldn't Shockwave handle audio? Apparently I cannot play MP3s in Amarok either.

Shockwave can't insert audio into a system that doesn't already have it. :P

The lack of audio is a non-flash issue. Follow the bread crumbs in #6 in my signature link, and that leads to the classic *buntu audio troubleshooting guidance. When audio works, flash will work.

[rogue417]

RESOLVED - flashplayer-installer NOT! - RESOLVED

removed and installed the linux-sound-base following the instructions in #6 of the audio help section graciously provided by dibl. The command line came back. I still have sound through Amarok; TV on the Radio still sounds good! But YouTube sound, Hulu sound - online sound - still does not compute. If Amarok can play music, presumably the Toshiba has found the sound card, that Alsa Mixer has correctly compiled. Can it failed to have compiled simply for web browsers? Lemme guess - time to start a separate post!