Ubuntu
flash-player package

flashplugin-nonfree and flash-player contain the same files

Bug #2051 reported by j^
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #36248: Hibernate breaks sound and mouse wheel. Edit Remove
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flash-player (Ubuntu)
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MOTU

Bug Description

ubuntu/multiverse should only contain one nonfree flash plugin for
mozilla. right now it is provided by flashplugin-nonfree and flash-player

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in flash-player:
assignee: nobody → motu
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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote :

hm...
there is no package flash-player in main/universe/multiverse.

However the following packages provide flash plugins to the mozilla browser family:

1) flashplayer-mozilla
2) flashplugin-nonfree
3) libflash-mozplugin

Having both installed 1) and 2), firefox seemed to choose the first installed package for handling swf content.
The problem arises however after removing 1), because firefox couldn't handle swf content any longer.
This might be related to updates to the mozilla-firefox chrome registry handled in postinst.

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Corey Burger (corey.burger) wrote :

Libflash is gplflash and thus not an issue in this bug (GPLflash is mostly one big bug right now, sadly)

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