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[lonniehenry]

I have a problem with installation of flashplugin-nonfree. I have tried purging and reinstalling and am not having much luck When I do anything to fix it I get the following :
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer10_install_linux_070208.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/bin/linux32: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


How do I get beyond this problem? Thanks in advance

[Orfintain]

I have a problem with installation of flashplugin-nonfree. I have tried purging and reinstalling and am not having much luck When I do anything to fix it I get the following :
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer10_install_linux_070208.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/bin/linux32: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


How do I get beyond this problem? Thanks in advance

Sorry if this sounds insulting, but are you running on a 32 bit machine or 64

[lonniehenry]

64 bit Intrepid 2.6.26 kernel

[Orfintain]

64 bit Intrepid 2.6.26 kernel

Well the plugin installer (i think, maybe code you pasted in) was pointing to directories found on a 32bit install, maybe there is a 64 bit version of the flash install other wise I don't know

[lonniehenry]

um I was trying to follow the guide for hardy with medibuntu's intrepid repos. Well I keep trying to solve. Thanks for the response.

[ubuntu-freak]

You should keep an eye on threads talking about Flash-10 for possible problems happening a few days after being installed.

I installed it 3 days ago and everything was working great until yesterday. It simply closes Firefox 3 without warnings as soon as it sees a Flash animation. I have not been able to use Flash since. I intend on removing it and putting back Flash-9.

I just have to figure out the package name to remove.

Flash Player v10 RC? I haven't used it, as nspluginwrapper isn't compatible with it yet. Flash Player v10 beta 1 works fine though, give that a try.

[fuzzyeric]

I'm a 64-bit user with fairly regular loss of YouTube video access. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! All fixed now.

[ubuntu-freak]

I'm a 64-bit user with fairly regular loss of YouTube video access. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! All fixed now.

You're welcome.

[beerguzzler]

Fantastic guide, however I still cannot get the past the "Get latest quicktime" message.

I've noticed that when I restart Firefox, the pluginreg.dat file is re-writing itself and deleting the QuickTime Plug-in 7.0 / 7:$ entry.

I've edited the file as both myself and root (via the gksu nautilus command), I've created more new firefox profiles than I can remember and even re-installed Hardy.

Hope you can help.

[ubuntu-freak]

Fantastic guide, however I still cannot get the past the "Get latest quicktime" message.

I've noticed that when I restart Firefox, the pluginreg.dat file is re-writing itself and deleting the QuickTime Plug-in 7.0 / 7:$ entry.

I've edited the file as both myself and root (via the gksu nautilus command), I've created more new firefox profiles than I can remember and even re-installed Hardy.

Hope you can help.

You shouldn't use gksudo/sudo for tasks in your home directory.

Try putting the QT7 line in different places in the pluginreg.dat file. It shouldn't be rewritten if the QT6 line is still there, strange.