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Fixing Broken Flash Player After Upgrading From Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 to Jaunty 9.04

April 29th, 2009 10:55 am / Posted in Linux by admin

I recently upgraded from Ubunty Hardy 8.10 to Jaunty 9.04 and found that my flash player no longer worked. It was a very simple fix, but I’ll post the process here in case it helps someone with the same problem.

First you need to uninstall the existing flashplayer:

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$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-* --purge

Then it’s just a case of reinstalling the latest version (which also fixes a serious security bug):

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$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Restart your browser and it should all be working.

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3 Responses to “Fixing Broken Flash Player After Upgrading From Ubuntu Hardy 8.10 to Jaunty 9.04”

  1. javaunixsolaris says:
    June 5, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Thanks so much I had the exact same problem. After your fix I went to youtube and a video came right up…without sound…but thanks again.

  2. Ted says:
    July 19, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    Didn’t work for me. I installed a fresh copy of Jaunty on a Dell E1405. Patched, then tried youtube, hulu, liquidgeneration etc… no flash movies load. I would have to say this is why windows succeeds. Not as cool, but it just works.

  3. Derek says:
    February 12, 2010 at 8:29 am

    Did not work for me either…

    Download done.
    sha256sum mismatch install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
    The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

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