Ubuntu 12.04 hanging very frequently

[Colin Law]

On 4 March 2013 10:50, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>> In your situation I think I would uninstall the one
> you installed manually and then, in the software centre, search for
> Adobe and install the Adobe flashplugin there.
>
> The problem in installing from Software Centre or sudo apt-get install was
> that it could not install and was showing a message telling that it is
> unable to install the adobe plug in. That is why I installed it manually.

If we knew the exact message then we could possibly help.
Otherwise I notice that I got an update to the plugin this morning.
If you don't want to try from the repository again then you should
check on the Adobe site to see if you have the latest version.

Colin

>
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----------------------------
> Sanjib Sikder
> Ph.D. Fellow
> Chemical Engineering
> IIT Bombay
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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 March 2013 10:23, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >>How did you install it?
>> >
>> > I installed it from the following Adobe website
>> > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
>> >
>> > At the website, once I chose the appropriate operating system, it asked,
>> > how
>> > would I like to open it. I chose Ubuntu Software Centre and installed
>> > that
>> > way,
>>
>> The disadvantage of doing it that way, I think, is that you will not
>> automatically get updates.  Installing it from the Ubuntu repository
>> will automatically get updates.  I don't know what the best thing to
>> do now is though.  In your situation I think I would uninstall the one
>> you installed manually and then, in the software centre, search for
>> Adobe and install the Adobe flashplugin there.  I am not a flash
>> expert however so there may be a better solution to your problem.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > -----------------------------
>> > Sanjib Sikder
>> > Ph.D. Fellow
>> > Chemical Engineering
>> > IIT Bombay
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 3 March 2013 17:30, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 since it was released without any
>> >> > issue
>> >> > but
>> >> > it is hanging very frequently since the last week. I have observed
>> >> > that
>> >> > since the last update of my Ubuntu, there was an issue with adobe
>> >> > flash
>> >> > plug
>> >> > in. A message popped up on every new start of the system that it
>> >> > failed
>> >> > to
>> >> > install adobe flash. I installed it manually.
>> >>
>> >> How did you install it?
>> >>
>> >> Colin
>> >>
>> >> >  From then onwards, whenever
>> >> > firefox (the latest version) is running, Ubuntu freezes completely if
>> >> > I
>> >> > try
>> >> > to run a few (3 or 4, say) applications simultaneously.  It seems if
>> >> > I
>> >> > do
>> >> > not run firefox and use Chrome, the system behaves properly.
>> >> >
>> >> > I would like to use firefox on Ubuntu 12.04. Please help, so that my
>> >> > system
>> >> > does not freeze.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> >
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>> >> > Sanjib Sikder
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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