[SOLVED] Watching Youtube

[jordank]

With a fresh install of ubuntu, what do i need to view youtube videos?

[perlluver]

With a fresh install of ubuntu, what do i need to view youtube videos?

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree.

[mc4100]

1. A working Internet Connection; go to System -> Admin -> Software Sources ... and tick the box "Software restricted by ... issues (multiverse)"
2. An open Terminal, (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
3. Copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
4. Type your password

DONE!

[jordank]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


still doesn't work.

[jordank]

should it not be working?

[perlluver]

should it not be working?

It should be working, youtube is flash.

[schauerlich]

Did you restart firefox?

[brian mcgee]

Do you have noscript installed? Any other Firefox plugins that might be blocking Flash? Does Flash work at other sites? e.g. break.com, kongregate.com

[jordank]

I did restart firefox, and no avail.
I don't know if i have noscript installed? I don't know what that is.
Also, I don't think i have any other plugins installed that would be blocking flash.

[Therion]

When you go to YouTube what DO you see? What happens when you try to watch video?

Go to www.albinoblacksheep.com

Can you play videos on that site?

[jordank]

When i try to watch a video on youtube, it tells me:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player. "

on the blacksheep site, when I try to watch a video, a little toolbar at the top of the site pops up saying that additional plugins are required to continue - when i click "install missing plugins" it allows me to download the latest adobe flash plugin. I click continue, and it tells me that it's already installed.

[brian mcgee]

When i try to watch a video on youtube, it tells me:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player. "

maybe you have javascript turned off

go to edit -> prefs -> content -> enable javascript

is that checked?

[jordank]

yeah, it's checked :S

[aysiu]

Can you paste these commands in the terminal (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/terminal) and then paste the output back here? Warning: the first command may take a couple of minutes to execute:
sudo updatedb
locate libflash
dpkg -s flashplugin-nonfree
dpkg -s mozilla-plugin-gnash
dpkg -s swfdec-mozilla
cat /etc/lsb-release
uname -m
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[jordank]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ sudo updatedb
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ locate libflash
/home/kristie/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libflash680li.so
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ dpkg -s flashplugin-nonfree
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/web
Installed-Size: 156
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12
Replaces: flashplugin (<< 6)
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, libgtk2.0-0, fontconfig, libxt6, libxext6, libatk1.0-0, libc6, libcairo2, libexpat1, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libglib2.0-0, libice6, libpango1.0-0, libpng12-0, libsm6, libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1, libxdmcp6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g
Suggests: firefox, konqueror-nsplugins, x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs (>= 1:1.0.1-5)
Conflicts: flashplugin (<< 6), xfs (<< 1:1.0.1-5), flashplayer-mozilla
Description: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe. It is a
Netscape/Mozilla type plugin. Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla can
use the Flash plugin. This package currently supports the following browsers:
Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape. Also Galeon and
Epiphany can use the Flash plugin. Konqueror can also use the Flash plugin if
konqueror-nsplugins is installed.
.
WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe flash plugin to be
downloaded from www.adobe.com. The distribution license of the Adobe flash
plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package implies
that you have accepted the terms of that license.
.
Homepage: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9
Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384, 92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115
Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash
Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer)
Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@knars.be>
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ dpkg -s mozilla-plugin-gnash
Package `mozilla-plugin-gnash' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ dpkg -s swfdec-mozilla
Package `swfdec-mozilla' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ uname -m
i686
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/source.list
cat: /etc/apt/source.list: No such file or directory
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$

[brian mcgee]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/source.list
cat: /etc/apt/source.list: No such file or directory
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$

That last one should be


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[armageddon08]

Try after restarting your computer.

[jordank]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$

[aysiu]

Hm. That's odd. dpkg says you have the software package flashplugin-nonfree installed, but when we did a search after a database reindex for libflash it didn't show up.

Can you try pasting these two commands in?
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree and then restart Firefox?

P.S. Copy and paste instead of retyping. You're less likely to make a mistake, and it saves you a little work, too.

[Pascal11110]

Try this: (type in command prompt) sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

this is how i got it to work

[brian mcgee]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ locate libflash
/home/kristie/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libflash680li.so


Post the output of


ls /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/Then from your Desktop, in the install_flash... folder, copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

This is not the clean way to do it...

[jordank]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for kristie:
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016) gutsy/main Translation-en_CA
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016) gutsy/restricted Translation-en_CA
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Translation-en_CA
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Translation-en_CA
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Translation-en_CA
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages
Fetched 1B in 2s (0B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.1kB of archives.
After unpacking, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 91424 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12 (using .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12) ...
Downloading...
--22:57:41-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
=> `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 72.246.130.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.246.130.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
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22:57:49 (473.64 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3044538/3044538]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.






I'm assuming the problem is the above.

[jordank]

kristie@kristie-laptop:~$ ls /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
libjavaplugin.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.so libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt
libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt libunixprintplugin.so
kristie@kristie-laptop:~$

[aysiu]

22:57:49 (473.64 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3044538/3044538]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.






I'm assuming the problem is the above. Yes, that is the problem. It's officially installed, but the installation didn't complete. I thought this bug had been fixed. I forget the workaround. In the meantime, you might as well copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ manually.

[brian mcgee]

try solution here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/173890/+viewstatus

[jordank]

thanks guys. all is well

[brian mcgee]

thanks guys. all is well

Good to hear. Which avenue worked for you? (thinking about others who read this thread)

[mapleleaf]

Thanks for the tips guys. I spent the last few days fixing this finally I re installed Ubuntu and installed flash plug non free from synaptic. Works perfect.