Micah, I just went to Synaptic to install Adobe flashplayer and found that Synaptic shows it as already installed. What is going on here? Is it possible that the Synaptic installation process is not targeting the player properly so that firefox doesn't know it is there? John.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: John & Cecile Collier <colliers.ba...@westnet.com.au> To: Bug 603883 <603...@bugs.launchpad.net> Subject: Re: [Bug 603883] Re: adobe flash crashes when called if shockwave flash is enabled otherwisw Java fails Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:55:16 +1000 Hi Micah, I have just upgraded, or updated, Firefox. Adobe flash still crashes. Since we have made many changes to the setup I thought it might be good to run the command you first gave me to see what plugins are now installed. Here is the result: j...@home-office:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree swfdec-mozilla mozilla-plugin-gnash flashplugin-nonfree: Installed: (none) Candidate: 10.0.1.218+really9.0.280.0ubuntu1 Version table: 10.0.1.218+really9.0.280.0ubuntu1 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Packages 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages swfdec-mozilla: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.6.0-2ubuntu1 Version table: 0.6.0-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages mozilla-plugin-gnash: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.8.2-0ubuntu3 Version table: 0.8.2-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages j...@home-office:~$ adobe-flashplugin bash: adobe-flashplugin: command not found j...@home-office:~$ It looks like there are no plugins installed. Should I install one? Current version info is: Firefox 3.6.9 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0 Regards, John. -- adobe flash crashes when called if shockwave flash is enabled otherwisw Java fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603883 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs