Flash not working on new PC

[Scott Abbey]

David Fletcher wrote:

> Might be getting to the bottom of this:-
> 
> Using the command line instead of the GUI gizmo:-
> sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
> No complaint.
> 
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> Download done.
> md5sum mismatch install flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> The flash plugin is NOT installed.

Adobe recently released a new version of Flash for Linux. As a result the
flashplugin-nonfree package (which really just downloads Flash from the
Adobe website) is downloading a different file than it used to. The Ubuntu
package verifies the integrity of the file it downloads, and since the file
is different, the Ubuntu package complains and refuses to install it.

The quickest workaround is to simply download the file directly from the
Adobe website and use their installer. Make sure you remove the
flashplugin-nonfree package first to avoid any conflicts. 

In addition, the new version of Flash viciously breaks nspluginviewer for
Konqueror, so if you want to view Flash in Konqueror, it's just not
possible until nspluginviewer gets upgraded.