Help with removing something

[sotvomike]

Ok, so I am having problems with Flash in my Firefox. I downloaded and installed Flash Player 10 plugin, but all tests say it's 9.x. When I go to YouTube, videos just play 1/4 of the time. All signs point to uninstalling Flash and reinstalling it again. So, I found where they are in the filesystem (/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin). I can't delete it normally because it says it is owned by root. So I go into Terminal and navigate to the directory. When I cd /adobe-flashplugin it says there is no such directory. I do ls and it lists all the libxxxx files that are in the directory, but no folders. How can I get into those folders and delete the files when teminal doesn't even show they exist?

[reed9]

How did you install flash?

Normally you want to do this through your package manager.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement

[sotvomike]

How did you install flash?

Normally you want to do this through your package manager.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement

I installed Flash through its website, with a .deb installer.

I tried uninstalling Flash installer and plugins, complete uninstall of Firefox and reinstall through Synaptic. Still same problem. When I go to Flash website to get and install Flash 10, it asks if I want to REINSTALL the pkg, yet when I got to aboutlugins, it still says 9.0.xx. The Flash website also says version 9.0.xx.

Latest drama, I finally go in as root and remove the 2 files. It I download the Flash 10 pkg and install. It STILL says 9.0xx version but now flash won't load, saying it is missing a media director. When I click Install Missing Plugin,says Manual Install which leads to Adobe page, but Linux isn't listed in the operating systems. At my wits end. Advice?

[reed9]

It's usually a bad idea to manually remove files installed via the package manager.

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

The usual method for Ubuntu is to do

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...dFormats/Flash

[sotvomike]

Did that. This is what it says:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
flashplugin-installer set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.28-11 linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[sotvomike]

OK, so just now I went into Synaptic, removed Flash Installer, Flash Plugin, swfdec-gnome, swfdec-mozilla and libswfdec-0.8-0. Then reinstalled them and restarted Firefox. Works like a charm now!