don't install properly (gutsy)

[Cyrille Grosdemange]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

- After a fresh install from Feisty, upgraded to Gutsy, I install flashplugin-nonfree from Firefox (visiting a web page using flash and clicking on the "install plugin" button.
- I restart Firefox and browse the same page
- Flash doesn't work and Firefox display the "install plugin" button again. If I click it, I have the message : "flashplugin-nonfree is already installed"

Downloading the official flashplayer and copying the libflashplayer.so file into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ resolves the problem...

PS: The problem is solved in hardy.

[Federico Foschini (undicizeri)]

A lot of people report this bug in #ubuntu-it on freenode. I have no idea why flashplugin-nonfree doesn't work

[Cyrille Grosdemange (ze-cyrilou)]

The problem is that the libflashplayer.so is not installed at all
A "sudo find / -name libflashplayer.so" doesn't return anything after
the installation

Le 3 févr. 08 à 16:03, Federico Foschini <email address hidden> a
écrit :

> A lot of people report this bug in #ubuntu-it on freenode. I have no
> idea why flashplugin-nonfree doesn't work
>
> --
> don't install properly (gutsy)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187558
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> of the bug.

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

I can confirm this bug. I recently installed Gutsy onto a friend's laptop. Ubufox worked perfectly to install flash-nonfree, but youtube still thinks flash is not installed. This needs to be fixed very quickly. It's apparently an easy fix, since flash-nonfree is installed, but the plugin file just isn't created in the correct directory (or at all).

Is this an ubufox problem? or a flash-nonfree deb problem?

[Otto Kekäläinen (otto)]

I confirm this.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install a clean Ubuntu 7.10
2. Open Firefox and go to a page that uses Flash animations
3. Use the installer to install flashplugin-nonfree, then restart Firefox
4. Go to a page that uses Flash and then see how Firefox - again - wants to install a Flash plugin

Problem: installing the flashplugin-nonfree does not provide Firefox a recognizable Flash plugin.

[Otto Kekäläinen (otto)]

It seems as if the issue is fixed with version flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2_i386.deb (available in Gutsy after about Feb 8th)

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

A lot of work has been done on the latest plugins which now use xembed. Can someone else confirm that this update fixes this issue?

[NZJon (jon-pawley-junk)]

I can confirm that this version works on my 64bit Ubuntu 7.10:

jon@black:~$ sudo aptitude show flashplugin-nonfree
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/web
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 160k
...
... etc.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this bug report. Since at least two person confirmed that the latest update fixed this issue, I set the Status to Fix Release but please feel free to reopen it if someone can still reproduce this issue with the latest Gutsy release.

[Cyrille Grosdemange (ze-cyrilou)]

I confirm : bug fixed :)
Thanks.