Comment 6 for bug 683557

I'm having the same problem on Kubuntu 11.10 64-bit, after upgrading from 11.04. People here are saying they deleted *all* their Firefox plugins - does one really need to delete plugins which have nothing to do with flash? Also, as far as I know flashplugin-installer downloads the actual flash plugin during installation. Is there any way to force it to redownload? I have purged and reinstalled flashplugin-installer and nspluginwrapper several times, but it never seems to download the plugin while installing.

I deleted /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so too, which is just a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin. When flashplugin-installer and nspluginviewer are installed, /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin points to /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so, and otherwise it points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so. This last file stays even if I purge all relevant packages and deleting it only screws things up when I try to install flashplugin-installer and nspluginviewer again.

So how is one supposed to get flash working?