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    Angry Can't watch youtube videos

    I CAN'T WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS OR DO ANYTHING ELSE REGARDING FLASH! I'VE TRIED DOING WHAT OTHER THREADS SAID BUT NOTHING WORKED!!!
    how do i download and enable flash??

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

    Choose the Ubuntu APT link. Should be fine.

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    when i clicked on download it brought me back to the same page. both pages said "to view this experience i need to have javascript enabled and the latest version of adobe flash player installed"

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    imu96

    Since 10.04 I haven't had to do anything more than install ubuntu-restricted-extras.
    Thats flash,java,codex.

    Not knowing what you have done, install

    Flash-Aid

    From Firefox addons, or from here.
    http://www.webgapps.org/addons/flash-aid



    Sharky

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    Quote Originally Posted by imu96 View Post
    when i clicked on download it brought me back to the same page. both pages said "to view this experience i need to have javascript enabled and the latest version of adobe flash player installed"
    I could never get the apt-get version to work either. Try downloading and unpacking the *.deb file instead. Then install the libflashplayer.so plugin manually.

    After going to the Adobe website and downloading the deb package for Flash, go to superuser and root and type the following from the download directory:

    Code:
    dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
    When dpkg is done unpacking, go to root and cut and paste

    Code:
    cd /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin && ls -FAtrls | grep libflashplayer.so
    Just to make sure that you have the libflashplayer.so file somewhere on your computer. File should light up in red text.

    There are a number of places that libflashplayer.so can go on the machine. Why not copy to each plugin directory? (if you can spare 60 mb or so)

    Copy libflashplayer.so to the following directories. I'll batch the command (using &&) to make things easier.

    Code:
    cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ &&
    cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ &&
    cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.15/ &&
    cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/ &&
    cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
    Is this wasteful and redundant? Yes, but the copies can be pruned back later if necessary.

    Don't forget to exit root.

    Open up youtube and see what happens.

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    Smile Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    @ triceratops.... it says that the package's archetecture i386 does not match mine amd64.... is there anyway to deal with this???

    hopeful....

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    download the .tar.gz version of the flash from the adobe site.. in it.. you will find the libflash.so file..
    then copy paste it to the required directories..



    (this is not how it should be done!! someone should fix this!!)
    There and back again...

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    The APT version: lucid didnt know what to do/how to open it so I tried the .deb version and it installed and worked no problem. Only had to restrart Firefox to get it going.

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    ummm... wat is the required directory???

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    Re: Can't watch youtube videos

    Quote Originally Posted by imu96 View Post
    ummm... wat is the required directory???
    Just install this it will do all the work for you.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...don/flash-aid/

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