can't find macromedia flash plug-in

[wiley89]

Greetings. I'm very new to ubuntu and linux, about 4 months in. I don't really know my way around the shell too well, and was hoping some of you gurus could give me some help.

About a month ago I got the usual "time to update your plugins" and was redirected to adobes webpage. However, the plugin it offered me was incompatible with my build, an AMD Turion 64 X2. I tried downloading some other Macromedia Flash Plug-ins from synaptic and none of them have worked. Since then I've been using vista primarily. I enjoy using ubuntu alot more, especially with all the work I put into my desktop and getting compiz the way I wanted it, but if I can't stream videos then there's simply no reason for me to use ubuntu. I get the feeling there's an easily solution that I just can't grasp, and I'm hoping someone can help me so I don't have to go back to vista.

[devils casper]

Have you tried this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

?

[wiley89]

Yeah I already tried that plug-in. When I go to you tube the page loads as if nothing were wrong, but there is just empty white space where the video should be. If I use another venue, such as stumble-video, I get the same deal. Basically the page loads normally minus any kind of video.

[devils casper]

Have you installed Adblock or NoScript extensions in Web Browser?

Post the output of this

uname -a

[wiley89]

Linux Descartes 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux


and just for the sake of learning, what is the function of the uname -a command?

also I have no such add-ons for my browser, I'm just using the latest fire-fox, so anything that comes standard with the latest fire-fox.

[devils casper]

and just for the sake of learning, what is the function of the uname -a command?

uname -a command displays info of kernel and OS version/type.

Flash plug-in doesn't work well with 64bit OSes.
You can use nspluginwrapper to install and use 32bit Flash Plug-in in 64bit distro.

Execute this to install nspluginwrapper and Flash plug-in.

wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
sudo bash ./flash10_en.sh

Open Firefox and check if it works.

[wiley89]

when I type in that first line the terminal output is

Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.

[wiley89]

Okay, I just pasted the URL in my browser and downloaded the file to my desktop, then I did the second command line, and something appears to have happened. However, now when I go to install the flash player, I get this output.


Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

[wiley89]

Okay, I messed around for a bit and now it appears that the flash plugin is installed and that the other work-around you showed me also worked. However the same thing happens when I use stumble-video and when I go to youtube it says I don't have any plug in installed at all. I've got to be doing something wrong.