Flash plugin ?????

[St Nabi]

Hi all, just upgraded to 9.10.

Just cant get flash to work.

Can't seem to find it anywhere hence cannot uninstall it !

Totally stuck

Advice will be welcome.

Thanks & regards

St

[phillw]

Hi all, just upgraded to 9.10.

Just cant get flash to work.

Can't seem to find it anywhere hence cannot uninstall it !

Totally stuck

Advice will be welcome.

Thanks & regards

St


Try here ...

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/31/install-flash-and-multimedia-support-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

Phill.

[St Nabi]

Thanks for such a quick reply.

I did as suggested and got the following message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cabextract{a} gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse libfaac0{a} libmjpegtools-1.9{a}
libmp3lame0{a} libmp4v2-0 libquicktime1{a} libx264-67{a} libxvidcore4{a}
ttf-liberation{a} ttf-mscorefonts-installer ubuntu-restricted-extras
unrar
The following packages will be REMOVED:
binutils-static{u} gdebi-kde{u} install-package{u} kdesudo{u}
libgcj-common{u} libnspr4-dev{u} libnss3-dev{u} libpolkit-qt0{u}
libqt4-assistant{u} libqt4-help{u} libqt4-scripttools{u} libqt4-test{u}
libqt4-xmlpatterns{u} python-kde4{u} python-qt4{u} python-sip4{u}
ubuntu-vm-builder{u}
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
adobe-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 17 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 44.0MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
Writing extended state information... Done
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

Any ideas?

[St Nabi]

By the way I can't get into the synaptic package manager either

[phillw]

Thanks for such a quick reply.

I did as suggested and got the following message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cabextract{a} gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse libfaac0{a} libmjpegtools-1.9{a}
libmp3lame0{a} libmp4v2-0 libquicktime1{a} libx264-67{a} libxvidcore4{a}
ttf-liberation{a} ttf-mscorefonts-installer ubuntu-restricted-extras
unrar
The following packages will be REMOVED:
binutils-static{u} gdebi-kde{u} install-package{u} kdesudo{u}
libgcj-common{u} libnspr4-dev{u} libnss3-dev{u} libpolkit-qt0{u}
libqt4-assistant{u} libqt4-help{u} libqt4-scripttools{u} libqt4-test{u}
libqt4-xmlpatterns{u} python-kde4{u} python-qt4{u} python-sip4{u}
ubuntu-vm-builder{u}
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
adobe-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 17 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 44.0MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
Writing extended state information... Done
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

Any ideas?


Holy **** ... oh no, please not..... I WAS about to go to bed (01:45 here) .....

Been there, got the solution. But, you're going to have to trust me as I'm going to tell you to do some serious stuff on your system. It does work, it's just a bit scary.

Phill.

[St Nabi]

I am also in the uk matey. Same time here !!!