flash doesn't work

[JeanB]

I did a bunch of upgrades a few days ago, and ever since I'm having troubles with my flash. Every page that has flash on it loads with a big grey arrow where the flash should be -- when I click on the arrow 50% of the time the video will play. but often (such as for Yahoo videos) I get a bunch of weird script where the video should play. Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Jean

[b2bwild]

I assume you are using swfdec-mozilla
cause of gray arrow, you mentioned
use adobe flashplayer instead.

[JeanB]

I thought I was using adobe, but how do I find out? And how do I get rid of the mozilla one?

[jmadero]

just do

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

you'll get what you're looking for

[JeanB]

So I did this:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

....it didn't seem to make any difference though. I'm still having those big gray arrows show up on every page.

[b2bwild]

get it here

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...r_10_linux.deb

[JeanB]

I had already installed the macromedia flash -- it didn't make any difference. I'm still having the same problem.

[JeanB]

Still having the same problems with my video. Often the video won't even play. Nothing I've done has helped.....how can I fix this?

[jmadero]

Look in synaptic for flash and see what's installed. If there are multiple flash players installed they can conflict and cause those kinds of problems. I know the newer open source flash player still has a bit of time before it's up to my standards personally so I'd look, maybe even uninstall all flash things and then do the command I gave you before:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

if you have already done that then I'd do the following:

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

then do the synaptic search for flash and fully uninstall anything flash related

then reboot and go back to

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

you might also want to completely remove firefox and then reinstall it as well

[JeanB]

Thank you so much jmadero!! I don't know what all of that did, but it worked....so I'm very happy.

I really appreciate your patience and expertise.

Jean