Flash Player does not work in 7.10

[Jarl Falkenborn]

Have problem with flash in the new 7.10, have no idea why and can not make it work again. This is how it looks in Firefox when I enter about:plugins:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.20.0

    File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
audio/x-ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
video/ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/x-ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 NSV video nsv Yes
video/flv Flash video flv Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-mplayer2 AVI video avi, wma, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin ASF video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf ASF video asf Yes
video/x-ms-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-wmv WMV video wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Playlist wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wm ASF video wmv Yes
application/x-ms-wms WMV video wms Yes
application/asx Playlist asx Yes
DivX® Web Player

    File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/divx AVI video divx Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0

    File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.20.0 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime QT video mov Yes
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4 Yes
image/x-macpaint MacPaint Bitmap image pntg Yes
image/x-quicktime Macintosh Quickdraw/PICT drawing pict, pict1, pict2 Yes
video/x-m4v MPEG-4 video m4v Yes

And it's not working and I can not uninstall the flash either.

[Stéphane Loeuillet (leroutier)]

Hum, you're using Adobe/Macromedia Flash player, right ? (as I see r48)
So, this bug has been opened against the bad package

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

From command line, cna you try this and report back the resulting output ?:

sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree

and then

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Thank you.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Ah, found the bug report about this. Marking as duplicate. Unfortunately there is no fix yet, Adobe has updated their versions which results in a mismatch in MD5 sum and this unsuccesful install.

See:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/173890