Downloading Flash in Firefox

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/18/2010 01:18 PM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mark C. Miller<mr.mcmiller at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Has anyone had a problem in Firefox running 10.04 getting the plugin to
>> load?
>>
>> Every time I visit a site that needs flash, I'm prompted to download the
>> current plug-in.  When I follow the links I have two choices, one for 8.04
>> + (a .deb file) and a second one for 9.10+ (APT file).  If I try the 8.04
>> route, I get absolutely nothing.  When I try the 9.04 option it tells me
>> that it's a virtual install (sorry, I didn't write down the exact error
>> message.)  It doesn't work after all of that.
>>
>> I installed the player just fine on my IBM, HP, and Gateway desktops.
>> I'm having this problem on a Dell computer at work. It will not run the
>> most recent kernal,so I'm one version behind. Could that be the source of
>> the problem?
>>
>> tnx
>>
>> mcm
>>
>>      
> Hrm, might try sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> Let me know what happens, we might have to delve a bit deeper.
>
> ~SpaceGhost
>
>    
         Yes it does find flashplugin-nonfree and it is d/l 2 Mb of 
files mostly lib files. Thanks for the fix.

73 Karl


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