On 2008-09-08, Craig Aldinger gonzogone@gmail.com wrote:
Had a number of misadventures w/ my system at home (mostly hardware) that resulted in Oren building me a new tower. I did the load of Ubuntu 7.10 from my canonical disc, downloaded all the available updates and brought it home and am currently up to almost 24 hrs without any running problems..... except getting an Adobe Flash player loaded, something needful for me to do a variety of audio streaming things. Oren indicated that there was some kind of Firefox/Ubuntu/Adobe breakdown he had gotten wind of, am wondering if you have any advice/shortcuts/hacks that I can use. If you think it potentially productive, feel free to pass this to the list for consideration.
Thanks!
I have relatively little luck and patience for Adobe flash on GNU+Linux. I've found that ies4linux is usually more stable for flash than anything else because at least Adobe *wants* flash to work with IE on Windows. I find the unpredictable stability of flash player an excellent excuse to abstain from all flash content whenever possible. If a website "requires" flash, it is broken. You you wouldn't scamper around installing browsers and plugins if you got a 404 error would you?
While I am not familiar with doing it at all in Ubuntu. Ubuntu supposedly had a package called ubuntu-restricted-extras which was a quick and dirty way to get common proprietary software installed.
The common culprits are not having libflashsupport or nspluginwrapper instaled, but the latter has more to do with bringing 32bit plugins to a 64bit FireFox, and I doubt the stamped cd from Ubuntu you have is 64-bit.
You're going to hear "Install Ubuntu 8.04 instead", and that's not a bad idea. If you don't have a cd of it, I will bring one to the next meeting. If I were you, and had to use Ubuntu, and Adobe flash, I would - Have to agree to its license at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/ - Download the .tar.gx file from adobe at http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_playe... - Extract it (tar xf install_flash_player_9_linux) - cd in to it - run ./flashplayer-installer from the command line.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM, billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
While I am not familiar with doing it at all in Ubuntu. Ubuntu supposedly had a package called ubuntu-restricted-extras which was a quick and dirty way to get common proprietary software installed.
I've almost always got it installed by visiting a Flash based site and following the nice requesters that come up about it. I do recall a bit of trouble at some point, but it was about getting Flash sound enabled on certain systems. I run 8.04 at home, but I do all the tech support on a 7.10 system at a friends house as their only PC. They visit Flash heavy sites all the time and never complain about it. Heck, the only complains so far were an interrupted update that killed X and CDs that didn't play well that turned out to be scratched.'
Jon.
--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Jon Pruente jdpruente@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM, billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
While I am not familiar with doing it at all in Ubuntu. Ubuntu supposedly had a package called ubuntu-restricted-extras which was a quick and dirty way to get common proprietary software installed.
I've almost always got it installed by visiting a Flash based site and following the nice requesters that come up about it. I do recall a bit of trouble at some point, but it was about getting Flash sound enabled on certain systems. I run 8.04 at home, but I do all the tech support on a 7.10 system at a friends house as their only PC. They visit Flash heavy sites all the time and never complain about it. Heck, the only complains so far were an interrupted update that killed X and CDs that didn't play well that turned out to be scratched.'
Right now my main system is still running 7.10 (I have issues with how 8.04 handles my frequent "ftp server with login" server connections through the File Browser) and I had no trouble setting up Flash using the installer off Adobe.com.
I only recently learned about the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, but when I used it, it didn't seem to grab Flash for me so I had to go to the Adobe site anyway. Generally on a new install I go through "Add/Remove" and install all the GStreamer-restricted codec packages, as well as Avidemux (another restricted extra), but Flash remains an external package install.
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