I AM RUNNING VERSION 11.10. and i cannot play anything on you tube.seems like my flash player is gone after a recent update.pls help

[Djamil Remodkhan]

I am running kubuntu 11.04. Adobe Flash Player was previously working in Firefox. A recent update has apparently wiped out flash player. I cannot figure out how to re-install it. If I visit a page that needs flash player, I am directed to download it from Adobe. On Adobe site I select the version "APT for Ubuntu 10.04+" but when I click download I get this error message: Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (apt) isn't associated with any program.

Searching for answers I found a suggestion to try this command: dpkg -l|grep flash; dpkg -l|grep gnash; dpkg -l|grep swf

Here is the result of running that command:

paul@paul-2011-07:~$ dpkg -l|grep flash; dpkg -l|grep gnash; dpkg -l|grep swf
ii flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.4ubuntu0.11.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
paul@paul-2011-07:~$

I do not know how to re-install Adobe Flash Player.

[Jack Ostroff (ostroffjh)]

Same problem - but with Ubuntu 11.10 and adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.233-0oneiric1. My CPU is an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ and I believe this problem is because the packaged version of the plugin .so file was compiled with sse2 instructions, which are not present on this class of CPU. I have seen the same problem on several other distros. Until Adobe fixes this (which seems to be questionable) the solution is to make available the most recent version of the plugin compiled without the sse2 compile flag. Because of other security issues with the plugin, this might be an older 11.2 or maybe even a newer 10. version.

My symptom is simply that any web page with flash content has a plain gray box in Firefox. In Chromium, it asks for permission to run the plugin, but clicking "yes" has no effect.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Try running an apt-get purge and then an apt-get install.

This is a bug tracker not a support forum.

[Jack Ostroff (ostroffjh)]

I"m not sure about the original poster, but flashplugin 11.2.202 simply will not work on any CPU without sse2 instructions - so this affects many AMD Athlon XP (and other?) 32 bit processors. The problem is not in the packaging, but in the compiling, so although it's really an Adobe problem, it shouldn't be ignored by the distros. There is a 10. version that still works and is recent enough that I believe it does not have all the myriad security issues of earlier 10. versions.

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