Adobe Flash Player

[William Frick]

Searched out pepper flash as an alternate to Adobe on Chromium.  Followed a
link to installing with a PPA and it worked straight away !  For anyone
interested try looking here :
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupd8.org%2F2013%2F04%2Finstall-pepper-flash-player-for.html&ei=WwP0U8mcCMu2ogTsxoEY&usg=AFQjCNFY9vO7q1F4H0Rp8UXcbbRC3hMKlQ&sig2=-_GPXc-MxduSVkzGtIGErg&bvm=bv.73373277,d.cGU

Back to streaming my music from cbc !  and sorting out other things broken
in 14.04.

Bill


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:17 AM, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This from security updates may be the reason flash is not working for some.
>
> "ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
> been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
> reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If
> you use* linux-restricted-modules,* you have to update that package as
> well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
> manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic,
> linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically
> perform this as well.
> "
>
> The rest of the text in my next mail.
>
>
>
>
> On 17 August 2014 15:18, gord campbell <gordc2005 at velcom.ca> wrote:
>
>> Running Chrome 36.0.1985.143 under Mint 13 (equivalent to Ubuntu 12.04
>> plus restricted extras) it works for me. I have never done anything
>> specifically related to Flash Player.
>>
>> I could be wrong, but I think Chrome plays the stream all by itself,
>> with no Adobe software involved in the process.
>>
>> Does other music play? There are four places sound can be muted in
>> Ubuntu, and all too often that is the problem.
>>
>> VLC media player can play streams, but it takes a bit of work to figure
>> it out.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Message: 1
>> > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:12:11 -0400
>> > From: William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com>
>> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> > Subject: Adobe Flash player
>> > Message-ID:
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>> > Is it just me or do others have problems with getting flash player and
>> > chrome to work ?  Did a complete fresh install on my desktop previously
>> > 12.04LTS. This was prompted by an update to 12.04 saying my hardware
>> stack
>> > was outdated. I did that update and flash stopped functioning on
>> cbc/music
>> > streams.
>> >
>> > I have removed the flash plugin installer as it was not compatible with
>> the
>> > .deb file downloaded from adobe. [prompted by software centre to
>> remove].
>> > My laptop 14.04 also has the same software but it worked right away
>> after
>> > installing 14.04.
>> >
>> > Is there an alternate way to listen to these streams ?
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