Help ! i need flash 11 but can not lose flash 9 ?

[kdeuser]

Hi everbody,

In the end it was simple. There are are 2 ways :

- Install Synaptic Package Manager - Click on Reload and enter Firefox. Not only was the latest version installed , so too was Flashplayer ( 11.2.202 ).

- With this option you go straight to Mozilla and download the .tar.bz2 V.20 package and extract the libflashplayer.so file only.

Copy and paste using root permissions to /.mozilla/plugins folder.

That`s it.

( Note, still can`t get rid of flash 9 so i disabled it in ( tools / add-ons / plugins ),

[Frank616]

kdeuser:

I'm so glad you found a solution to this. I didn't think it would be a hard thing to do. I just didn't know WHAT needed to be done, or what tools the manufacturer of the unit was making available to you.

Synaptic has to have its repositories set so that it can get the right packages for your system. Did you have to reset that, or add a repository from the manufactuer? Are you back with 8.04, or are you using something more recent?

Frank.

[kdeuser]

Hi Frank,

I just put `sudo apt-get install synaptic ` , into the console and synaptic was installed . I figured it was my OS as firefox 3.6.24 was in there ; I then clicked reload and scrolled down Synaptic finding many packages which could be updated. Firefox happened to be the one i needed , which inturn installed the latest flash for 10.04.

You may have guessed i am not on 8.04 . I0.04 has it`s glitches but i have noticed videos play better .

Regarding those glitches, i will try and iron them out in the next few days and post in a new thread the one`s that i can`t get rid off.

Cheers.

[Frank616]

kdeuser:

If you can upgrade to 12.04, it is worth it. You've already made the big step from 8.04 to 10.04. That gives you KDE 4 instead of KDE3, as well as the ability to use PPA's (Personal Package Archive). These are third party repositories of compiled programs that will run on the version of Kubuntu that you are using -- basically an extension to the standard Canonical repositories. I would think that the manufacturer of your system, if still staying up to date, would use such a repository to keep your machine updated.

I gave up on 10.04 because KDE 4.x in that version was still not fully mature. 12.04 is much better.

Frank.