Macromedia Flash Plugin for Mozilla does not install correctly

[Jørn Lüttge Jensen]

Binary package hint: apt

Daily build of hardy-desktop-i386 April 8 running on Wubi rev 479.
In Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 the flash plug-in does not install correctly - neither when using the package manager nor when installing through the browser.. Even though the installation process appears to run smoothly and complete successfully - when you encounter a flash object the browser shows "click to install missing plug-in" - and when you proceed you are told that the plug-in is installed.
By fetching the plug-in myself as a tar.gz file I managed to install the plug-in correctly when I indicated the Mozilla installation directory as /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5.
The apt version is indicated as synaptic 0.61Ubuntu8.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 9 13:05:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686

[Jørn Lüttge Jensen (joernluettge)]

Forgot to mention that the hardy-desktop build did not have this problem about a week ago.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

P{lease tell me what version of apturl you are using, This was fixed in apturl but i think we are waiting for ubufox to fix it since ubufox uses apturl. also what version of ubufox do you have installed.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please look in firefox-3.0 directory to see if you see it in the plugins file. this could be because it wasnt placed in firefox-3.0 profile but in 2.0 instead.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

What version of firefox and flashplugin-nonfree are you seeing this with?

[Jørn Lüttge Jensen (joernluettge)]

Hi John,
I hope you see the answer this way when I answer your mail:

Version of apturl is 0.2.0 ubuntu1 at present

Version of ubufox is 0.5~rc1-0ubuntu1

Firefox is 3.0b5 as reported
Firefox indicates that the Shockwave Flash version is 9.0 rl24

I found that I have libflashplayer.so installed in 2 directories:
usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree
usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

At that point of time "Add/remove programs" reported that I had the flash
plugin installed.
Then I had "Add/remove programs" remove the program.
Then the program in the first directory disappeared - but flash movies like
"The Daily Show" continued to work.

Hope this helps! Otherwise I will try to-morrow to see if the new build
still has the error.

2008/4/10, John Vivirito <email address hidden>:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 173890 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890
>
> P{lease tell me what version of apturl you are using, This was fixed in
> apturl but i think we are waiting for ubufox to fix it since ubufox uses
> apturl. also what version of ubufox do you have installed.
>
>
> ** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
>
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs (mozilla-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
> --
> Macromedia Flash Plugin for Mozilla does not install correctly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214538
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
>
> Status in Source Package "flashplugin-nonfree" in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: apt
>
> Daily build of hardy-desktop-i386 April 8 running on Wubi rev 479.
> In Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 the flash plug-in does not install correctly -
> neither when using the package manager nor when installing through the
> browser.. Even though the installation process appears to run smoothly and
> complete successfully - when you encounter a flash object the browser shows
> "click to install missing plug-in" - and when you proceed you are told that
> the plug-in is installed.
> By fetching the plug-in myself as a tar.gz file I managed to install the
> plug-in correctly when I indicated the Mozilla installation directory as
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5.
> The apt version is indicated as synaptic 0.61Ubuntu8.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Apr 9 13:05:36 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686
>

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[NQd (qiuguoqin)]

Thank you so much!
I'v been using Firefox 2, but I'v been busy these days.
So I will try to fix the problem next time.
Thank you all the same, and the Ubuntu community is amazingly active!

NQd
2008-04-11

发件人： John Vivirito
发送时间： 2008-04-11 02:27:41
收件人： <email address hidden>
抄送：
主题： [Bug 214538] Re: Macromedia Flash Plugin for Mozilla does not installcorrectly

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 173890 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890

Please look in firefox-3.0 directory to see if you see it in the plugins
file. this could be because it wasnt placed in firefox-3.0 profile but
in 2.0 instead.

--
Macromedia Flash Plugin for Mozilla does not install correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214538
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug (via bug 173890).

Status in Source Package "flashplugin-nonfree" in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: apt

Daily build of hardy-desktop-i386 April 8 running on Wubi rev 479.
In Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 the flash plug-in does not install correctly - neither when using the package manager nor when installing through the browser.. Even though the installation process appears to run smoothly and complete successfully - when you encounter a flash object the browser shows "click to install missing plug-in" - and when you proceed you are told that the plug-in is installed.
By fetching the plug-in myself as a tar.gz file I managed to install the plug-in correctly when I indicated the Mozilla installation directory as /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5.
The apt version is indicated as synaptic 0.61Ubuntu8.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 9 13:05:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686

[Jørn Lüttge Jensen (joernluettge)]

As far as I can see this is not a duplicate of bug #214538, since I got no errors in installing the plug-in, but confirmation that the plug-in was installed - but it did not work.
But for me - using the daily build of hardy-desktop-i386 and Wubi-8.04-beta-rev482 downloaded to-day Fri 11th April the fix made by John Vivirito above works!
I let the FireFox 3.0b5 install the flash plugin the first time it met a Flash object and it worked perfectly.
For information I include a file list of the /usr library before (jlj1.list) and after (jlj2.list) the flash plug-in installation.
I am new to this - but really amazed at how well this works!
(Well it appears that I am not allowed to upload attachments - and it is probably not necessesary).
Thanks to all!

Versions according to manifest:
apturl 0.2.1ubuntu1
ubufox 0.5~rc1-0ubuntu1
firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
firefox-3.0-gnome-support 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
firefox-gnome-support 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Marking in valid, it is known to us to be an issue and Alexander will have this fixed for release, I will check with him again next week sometime to check how far hes gotten on this.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

As far as I know, this is a duplicate of bug 144042 which has been recently fixed by Alexander Sack.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Saivann, the other bug report you mention is a different issue, this one is not installing in right profile as it should be profile of FF-3.0 but instead it installs in profile for 2.0.
the other repoert is when using ubufox open a page with flash and it will ask if you want flash player installed and it states installed no matter what the case. that was fixed in apturl+uibufox this needs to be fixed in firefox since we support 2 versions and it thinks 2.0 is default.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Un-duplicated, thanks.