no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

Sat Mar 30 18:55:59 UTC 2013

To your first point, I could put responses inline, but I'd have to insert '> ' in front of each line in the whole file so people could see what's new ... and I think I've tried that before, too, but that yahoo starts realigning the lines so the '> ' are not at the front of the line anymore.

Thank you for following up on this.  Again, you were right that I hadn't installed chromium (again, I had tried apt-get install chrome, and got nothing so followed google's instructions); again, installing chromium as you suggested didn't change the symptoms....

:) this is starting to be like a broken record.

I don't know why the non-free stuff didn't get checked ... apparently, I overlooked it.

I will try to pull the flash libraries back out again, although if flash is built into chromium, it shouldn't matter ... oh, did you say that they are only built into chrome?

(chrome/chromium??? I better rush off to Wikipedia ...)

________________________________
 From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

On 30 March 2013 17:33, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Sorry, I can't reply directly to your points, because yahoo's totally trashy
> interface no longer allows indented quoted messages....

Can you not just scroll down and insert at appropriate point?

>
> I'm sure that it's chrome I installed (chromium isn't the OS?):
>
> $ ls /opt/google/chrome
> PepperFlash             libpdf.so                       product_logo_22.png
> chrome                  libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so  product_logo_24.png
> chrome-sandbox          libwidevinecdm.so               product_logo_256.png
> chrome.pak              libwidevinecdmadapter.so        product_logo_32.png
> chrome_100_percent.pak  locales                         product_logo_32.xpm
> cron                    nacl_helper                     product_logo_48.png
> default-app-block       nacl_helper_bootstrap           product_logo_64.png
> default_apps            nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe            resources.pak
> google-chrome           nacl_irt_x86_64.nexe            xdg-mime
> google-chrome.desktop   product_logo_128.png            xdg-settings
> libffmpegsumo.so        product_logo_16.png
>
>
> You're right, I wish I hadn't mixed the tarball and the apt-get but I didn't
> know about flash-installer or whatever it was - I tried apt-get install
> flash and it came up with nothing.  Now I don't know if the tarball
> installation has left any artifacts laying around (I removed the .so).  It
> still doesn't work, no change in symptoms, even with the flash-installer
> installed.
>
> Can other people use a browser with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS?  (silly question,
> but I don't know what I did unusual.  And I'm anyway blown away that a
> browser isn't preinstalled).

I think maybe when you installed you did not check the box that says
to install non-free components (like flash).
I think also you did not install chromium browser from the Ubuntu
repository either as I would have expected it to be installed in
/usr/bin

$ which chromium-browser
/usr/bin/chromium-browser

It is installed using
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
or looking for chromium browser in software centre.

I think as soon as you start installing things by hand then it can get
problematic.  Not much help I know, sorry.

Colin

> ________________________________
> From: Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>
> To: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support,
> not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Can anybody make anything out of these messages from chrome?
>
> [17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name
> owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of
> name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
> [17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name
> owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of
> name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
> [17204:17204:0330/170705:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method:
> org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was
> not provided by any .service files
> [17204:17204:0330/170710:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented
> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
> [17204:17204:0330/170715:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented
> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
> [16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init
> returned false
> [16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in
> [16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init
> returned false
> [16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in
> [17204:17204:0330/170747:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented
> reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
>
>
>
> Are you sure you've installed Google Chrome and not chromium (related but
> different beasts)? Your initial instincts were correct, it should just
> "work", at least with Google Chrome, which has flash included (I don't think
> chromium does, but I don't use it, so ...).
>
> Also, I would suggest not mix and matching apt package installed stuff with
> tarballs. If the gods are against you, things could get messy.
>
>
> --
> Hal
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