FLASH PLAYER HELP

[NoOp]

On 06/21/2009 04:57 PM, David Curtis wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:01:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Chioma Udeaja <chioma_babi94 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> hello. how do you install adobe flash player 10 to ubuntu 8.04?
>> it doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> First of all remove all your attempts at installing Flash Player 10 so
> they don't interfere with the following. I'd offer you advice on
> how to do that but you haven't said how you attempted to install.
> 
> Open Synaptic and go to Settings/Repositories, enable hardy-backports
> hit Reload to make sure an update has occured. Search for
> flashplugin-nonfree, make sure it's version 10 and select it for
> install or upgrade. 
> 
> Enabling hardy-backports /should/ be safe enough if you haven't
> manually installed a lot of packages. Before you do approve of the next
> round of updates, that will come from enabling backports, do a
> thorough check on what is getting updated.  
> 
> 

@Chioma: for future reference, you might want to bookmark the packages
search pages:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=flashplugin-nonfree>