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    Flash/HTML5 Help

    Hello Ubuntu Forums,

    I'm running Xubuntu 13.10 [64-Bit] with XFCE 4.10 Desktop.

    I use Firefox as my web browser, and when I first visited Youtube it asked me to install Flash. The automatic plugin finder popped up, tried to install flash through that but it failed. So I searched the add-ons and installed one that converted Flash to HTML5 and allowed me to watch videos.

    Sometime today, videos stopped working. It will either display a please update your flash message otherwise tell me my web browser does not recognize any of the available video formats and provides a link for HTML5 Video FAQ.

    I decided to uninstall the add-on, and open the terminal to run "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer"

    It then tells me that I already have this installed, or so I believe?


    Code:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
      hyphen-en-us mythes-en-au openoffice.org-hyphenation
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


    Any suggestions as to what I'm to do? I assumed the original sudo command I put in would install it but I still cannot play videos.





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    Re: Flash/HTML5 Help

    Install Ubuntu-restricted-extras (or xubuntu-restricted-extras?) from synaptic, that will install flash along with other multimedia codecs.

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    Re: Flash/HTML5 Help

    Thank you for your response.

    I opened Synaptic and installed the Xubuntu-Restrictive-Extras and there was another similar in name that it highlighted. Unfortunately, that did not allow me to play flash. But it did allow me to watch HTML5 videos. I know this because I searched for HTML5 Videos on YouTube and they played!

    So, I decided to uninstall/reinstall flashplugin-installer. Not to my surprise, it did nothing!

    Finally I reopened Synaptic and found "adobe-flashplugin" with description "Adobe Flash Player Plugin Version 11." I swear I searched for it before and it didn't show up. Regardless, I found it and installed it.

    Now Flash and HTML5 are playing without flaw.

    Overall, I know the restrictive extras at least enabled HTML5 playback. During installation of Xubuntu, I decided to skip 3rd party software installation and I may have clicked that while flashplugin-installer was being downloaded or installed. Perhaps that did something, I don't know.

    But for anyone else with a similar problem with the flashplugin-installer, instead find "adobe-flashplugin" and you should be set!

    Thanks again for response.

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    Re: Flash/HTML5 Help

    Good, please mark the thread 'solved'.
    Bringing old hardware back to life. About problems due to upgrading.
    Please visit Quick Links -> Unanswered Posts.
    Don't use this space for a list of your hardware. It only creates false hits in the search engines.

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