Karl Rixon

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

with 3 comments

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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April 29th, 2009 at 10:55 am

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  1. 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.

    javaunixsolaris

    5 Jun 09 at 6:19 pm

  2. 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.

    Ted

    19 Jul 09 at 1:46 pm

  3. Did not work for me either…

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

    Derek

    12 Feb 10 at 8:29 am

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