[SOLVED] Flash Plugin = Gray Screen

[xHero]

When I load a youtube video, I get a grey screen. Sometimes audio plays, sometimes it doesn't. I used to be able to fix this (sometimes) by refreshing, now nothing seems to be working.

On the wiki it said to run:
sudo update-flashplugin

However, I get the following error:
sudo update-flashplugin

How can I fix this?

[Existentialist]

Are you running the 32, or 64 bit version of Ubuntu? I'm running 64 bit and have been running the alpha version of flash player 10 from adobe for a while now. It has worked much better than the flashplugin-nonfree I was using before which often resulted in the same errors you are experiencing.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

[xHero]

I'm running 64bit. I'll try that out tomorrow. Thanks

[Existentialist]

Not sure where the instructions for installing it are so:

-remove current flash player:
>sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree

-extract the TAR.GZ you downloaded

-copy the extracted libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

-restart firefox

[xHero]

This has been working perfectly, thanks!