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adobe flash player not working on AMD64 with Firefox 3

Bug #272928 reported by mgbridges

This bug report was converted into a question: question #45901: adobe flash player not working on AMD64 with Firefox 3.

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Bug Description

I installed the Adobe Flash Player using a script obtained from the Ubuntu Forums ( ). Everything seemed to complete OK but it still does not seem to work i.e. I get the message "You must download and install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view this content" on websites with Flash content.

I'm using Ubunto 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an AMD64 architecture. Browser version is Firefox 3.

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Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano) wrote :

Have you tried installing the package called flashplugin-nonfree from the repository?

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

And did you install nspluginwrapper?

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mgbridges (martin-bridges) wrote :

I used this script: http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntume/nspluginwrapper-install-0-1.8.6-2.tar.gz which installs both of the above items, as far as I'm aware.

Martin

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

I'm reading that script, and I don't think it moves things where they need to be for FF3, just for old FF. I suggest not using random scripts you find on the internet if you don't understand exactly what they do.

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

This seems more like a support request than a bug, so I'm switching it to a question.

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Kilz (kilz) wrote :

The script is not a random one. It is the most used one on the Ubuntu forums in the 64bit section. The script is widely used because of the repeated failure of flash to install to the 64bit version. Had flash installed without the script it would never have been tried.

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

The script is not provided by Ubuntu and is thus not supported. Reading it, it's also not meant for your situation: ie, using FF3 instead of FF2. I've converted this to a question (support request). Please continue over there if you have more information or wait for an answer. I don't use Adobe Flash, though, so I've never bothered trying to install it on my 64bit system.

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