whoa...automatic install of flash in edgy...

[user1397]

sorry if this is old news, or it sounds retarted that im this excited, but when i went to a flash website in firefox 2 in edgy, i clicked on the missing plugin thing, followed the steps, and it installed it perfectly! i never thought they could make it that easy, it's just like windows now. i dont remember being able to do this in breezy or dapper.

[detgar]

I was able to do this in both breezy and dapper, on some days the installation would work, on others it wouldn't.

[LMP900]

Could it be that the site you visited required Flash 7 so it installed perfectly, while in the past it was trying to install Flash 8 or 9 therefore resulting in a failed installation?

I honestly have no idea, since I always use the manual install.

[aysiu]

It happened in Dapper. That's how I created the first part of this tutorial (at the time, I hadn't yet upgraded to Edgy):
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flashubuntu

[user1397]

huh, i guess it wasn't that much of a new thing. but still, thats pretty awesome, the fact that you can do it just like in windows (which sorry to say, is easy when it comes to the flash plugin)

[maniacmusician]

this gets me thinking, whats the status of flash 9? last i heard it was *about* to go beta.