Help with Flash

[HumanSancho]

Hi im fairly new to Ubuntu. I have had some problems installing flash.
I entered in the terminal "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree"
Im pretty sure it worked because now whenever I put it in the terminal i get this:

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

the problem is I still dont have flash player. I cant watch youtube videos and flash games dont work. If someone could help me that would be great.

Thanks!

[Kosimo]

Go here>

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...Platform=Linux

Download the adobe official .deb for Ubuntu and try to install it
It should work.

If doesn't you can install it manually following this guide:

(First steps on the first topic)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795019

[HumanSancho]

Oh i think i forgot to mention that im using outdated hardware and running dapper drake (bored weekend project).
Will this work with 6.06

[Kosimo]

Oh i think i forgot to mention that im using outdated hardware and running dapper drake (bored weekend project).
Will this work with 6.06

Nope, that .deb works with Hardy Heron or newer.

[HumanSancho]

Thanks for your help anyways.

[Kosimo]

Thanks for your help anyways.

You're using dapper 6.06 for any particular reason?
If your hardware is old you can give it a try to Xubuntu 8.04.1

[aysiu]

It's possible that the package manager thinks it's installed but it's not installed.

Can you paste these commands into the terminal and then post the output back here?

sudo updatedb
locate libflash
dpkg -s flashplugin-nonfree
uname -m
cat /etc/lsb-release

The first command may take a few minutes to execute. That's okay.

[HumanSancho]

Im only running Dapper Drake because my older brother use to use it and I found a book of his.
Should i try xubuntu 8.04?
I have a Dell Dimension 4300 with 512 mb of ram.
Im really new to Linux, my brother just recently got me interested.

[HumanSancho]

Wow! There really is a helpful community!
Well I pasted the entire thing into the terminal and this is what happened:

michael@michael:~$ sudo updatedb
Password:
michael@michael:~$


Thats it

[kansasnoob]

The Flash 10 Plugin recommended by Kosimo is great. You should also have sun-java6 and gstreamer plugins, you can get the bare essentials by(if it's ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

But you'll then have to reinstall flash 10. BTW if you install the new flash 10 via apt it shows up in synaptic as "adobe-flashplugin" whereas the previous version showed up as "flashplugin-nonfree".

Rather than installing just the "restricted-extras" I prefer using synaptic and installing ALL gstreamer (I just type gstreamer in the synaptic search and I install everything that begins with gstreamer), and also all sun-java6-**** EXCEPT -doc and -source!

OH IGNORE PLEASE!