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    Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

    Just a quick note for those of you trying to get Flash working with Firefox to display YouTube videos.

    The following pertains to a fresh install of Dapper i386 (6.06) with full upgrade per Adept on a homebuilt 64-bit Sempron-processor Box with Firefox 1.50.12 subsequently installed.

    I then tried using Adept Package Manager to install support for Flash in Firefox. This installed Flash Player version 4 which gave an error and would not bring video up in YouTube at all. I checked Firefox using "aboutlugins" and version 4 was indeed installed.

    I then installed Flash Player version 9 for Linux from the Macromedia Web site per their instructions. Still the same error in YouTube. Checking with "aboutlugins" showed both versions 4 and 9 as being installed.

    After I used Adept Package manager to uninstall the Flash Player version 4, the version 9 plugin started working fine. Note that this included the sound as working fine.

    Hope this helps someone, but please don't ask me how to do the install of Flash Player version 9 from the Macromedia web site. If you can't figure it out from their instructions, then you probably shouldn't be doing it.

    Can someone convince Kubuntu/Ubuntu to put version 9 in the repositories so it can be installed using Adept Package Manager? Version 4 is worthless.

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    Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

    Hope this helps someone, but please don't ask me how to do the install of Flash Player version 9 from the Macromedia web site. If you can't figure it out from their instructions, then you probably shouldn't be doing it.

    Can someone convince Kubuntu/Ubuntu to put version 9 in the repositories so it can be installed using Adept Package Manager? Version 4 is worthless.
    It is in the repositories:
    flashplugin-nonfree
    9.031.0.1ubuntu1~dapper1 (dapper-backports)

    Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
    This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe.
    It is useful for mozilla browser variants like Iceweasel.

    WARNING: Installing this Debian 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 Debian package implies
    that you have accepted the terms of that license.


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      #3
      Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

      Thanks, I'll check out the backports respository. I had only checked the default + universe and multiverse repositories

      LM
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        Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

        if you are ever wondering how to get mp4 and Quicktime going, try mozilla-plugin-vlc from the repositories.
        Once your problem is solved please edit the first post of your topic and add [SOLVED] in front of the subject. In that way, others can benefit from your experience!
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          Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

          Installing through Adept (backports repositories) failed to install Flash v.9 on same machine (note this is on a second previously installed copy of Dapper) because of a md5sum mismatch. I'm sure I could install using the manual method from Macromedia website, as I did with the other Dapper installation in my first message, but I'm curious why this didn't work after uninstalling Flash v.7 on this install. Any ideas?

          Adept dpkg run output follows:
          -----------------------------
          Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
          (Reading database ... 79942 files and directories currently installed.)
          Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.1ubuntu1~dapper1_i386.deb) ...
          Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.31.0.1ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
          Downloading...
          --18:53:04-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...9_linux.tar.gz
          => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
          Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 72.247.130.70
          Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.247.130.70|:80... connected.
          HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
          Length: 2,608,602 (2.5M) [application/x-gzip]

          0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 144.35 KB/s
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          18:53:21 (150.53 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [2608602/2608602]

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

          dpkg run finished!

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            #6
            Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

            I found the rest of the documentation for the backports flash plug-in at:

            http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-ba...plugin-nonfree

            It seems the version I tried to install (9.0.31.0.1ubuntu1~dapper1) is correct.

            Apparenty the backports flash plug-in installer does not work correctly. Would be nice to get it working so the flash updates can be done easily.

            LM
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              #7
              Re: Firefox Flash YouTube Sound Tip

              With a little more research it seems I have experienced the same bug that has been recently fixed for Debian.

              http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432755

              Why can't the same be done for Dapper?

              In any case, doing the manual install per Macromedia web site as I originally described will work.
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