Mozilla add0n will not install

[joenearns]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I have tried every way from Sunday to get the Adobe flash player add-on to install in Firefox 3.0.

I have tried letting the web page install it, completes fine with no errors but the add-on is not installed. I downloaded the file in the tar format, unpacked it and tried installing 'flasherplayer-installer' and that will not work.

I tried installing the downloaded packages from inside firefox [with no errors] and it still won't install.

It seems every site I go to asks for the damn player and I'm pulling my hair.

Any suggestions or am I reporting this to the wrong people or in the wrong place.

Thank you in advance for you assistance in this matter. Hope you can help.

Joseph Nearns
Dixon, MO 65459
Fairly New User [but I did have a Slackware version of linux serving up a webpage from a 486DX25 from my living room in the mid-90's so I'm not completely stupid, hahaha!)

Thanks!!!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 28 03:07:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

does the flashplayer show up when you visit the site "about:plugins" in firefox?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Because many people have been able to install the package using Canonical's partner repository, and because of the phrasing of this bug report, I'm pushing this question to answers.lp, which is more suitable given the context.