Downloading Flash in Firefox

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 23 19:15:14 UTC 2010


On 05/23/2010 11:47 AM, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> On Sunday, May 23, 2010 01:04:50 pm Loic Duros wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> Maybe try to go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
>> Once you are in there, type flashplugin-installer in the quick search.
>> 
>> See if this is installed. If not, you should try to install this and
>> then start firefox for testing. It worked for me to install it from the
>> Package Manager, but not from the Firefox Plugin interface.
> 
> Before posting this message, I had run
> 	sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> 	sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> According to synaptic, these packages are installed.

Do this again:

$ sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
then
$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin






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