Flash 10 SOLVED

[buschbarber]

I have been trying to install Flash 10. This resulted from the fact that I receive regular emails from Radio Shack and this week, when I clicked on Sneak a Peek link, I only saw the Red menu bar and the black text at the bottom, but the body of the ad was blank. I right clicked on the blank area, and in Properties, it said it was a Flash Movie.

I can play YouTube videos, but when I right click on them, it displays the logo for SWFDEC.

I did a Google search for Ubuntu and Flash 10. I followed the instructions to remove the old Flash and install Flash 10. When I go into Firefox and select Plugins, it displays Flash 9 and Flash 10. Both are enabled. If I disable Flash 9, the YouTube video will not play, even though Flash 10 is enabled. I still do not know how SWFDEC fits it to this problem.

How can I correct this?

[buschbarber]

I am using Ultimate Edition 2.2 64bit

[DarkChild]

I am using Ultimate Edition 2.2 64bit

Please go to "System> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager" and type "SWFDEC" in the quick search. Right click on both of them & mark for installation!! Look at the screen shot below for example. Please try this first suggestion before using the links below, those are only for last resort if this suggestion didn't do the trick!!


Last resort methods:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Gnome/Swfdec-Gnome-35548.shtml
or
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Internet/HTTP-WWW-/Adobe-Flash-Player-for-64-bit-Linux-42958.shtml
or
http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3247

[buschbarber]

Thank you Darkchild666. Installing the swfdec-gnome did the trick.

Can you explain to me how swfdec relates to Flash 9 or 10. Are they separate entities?

Why does the YouTube video quit when I disable the Flash 9 plugin?
Is Flash 10 even working?
Why when I right click on a YouTube video does Properties indicate SWFDEC?

Thanks!!

[DarkChild]

Thank you Darkchild666. Installing the swfdec-gnome did the trick.

Can you explain to me how swfdec relates to Flash 9 or 10. Are they separate entities?

Why does the YouTube video quit when I disable the Flash 9 plugin?
Is Flash 10 even working?
Why when I right click on a YouTube video does Properties indicate SWFDEC?

Thanks!!

I am happy knowing that, that first suggestion solved your problem. I can tell you personally that I am currently running only flash 10 & it works. Not too sure what maybe the case with your system. As for SWFDEC, look here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swfdec

[buschbarber]

Do you have Flash 10 installed as a Firefox plugin and also have to install it for Gnome, as well?

Does SWFDEC have to be removed in order for Flash 10 to work?

Is there any advantage to Flash 10 over SWFDEC?

[buschbarber]

I just navigated to the Asus site and it is requiring me to install Flash. I thought I was all set, but apparently not all Flash content is compatible with SWFDEC?

[buschbarber]

I followed these instructions to install Flash 10.

rich@UE22:~$ wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
--2009-07-20 22:09:32-- http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
Resolving queleimporta.com... 64.13.192.112
Connecting to queleimporta.com|64.13.192.112|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1710 (1.7K) [text/x-sh]
Saving to: `flash10_en.sh'

100%[======================================>] 1,710 --.-K/s in 0.09s

2009-07-20 22:09:33 (18.8 KB/s) - `flash10_en.sh' saved [1710/1710]

rich@UE22:~$ sudo bash ./flash10_en.sh
[sudo] password for rich:
Closing Firefox
firefox: no process killed
Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries
--2009-07-20 22:10:18-- http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy ... bs-all.deb
Resolving www.boundlesssupremacy.com... 174.132.151.2
Connecting to www.boundlesssupremacy.com|174.132.151.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2009-07-20 22:10:19 ERROR 404: Not Found.

dpkg: error processing getlibs-all.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
getlibs-all.deb
Removing previous installs of flash:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mythbuntu-lirc-generator lirc mythbuntu-common setserial expect vnc4-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
flashplugin-installer* nspluginwrapper* swfdec-mozilla*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1057kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 387193 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-installer ...
Purging configuration files for flashplugin-installer ...
Removing nspluginwrapper ...
Removing swfdec-mozilla ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
ia32-libs set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mythbuntu-lirc-generator lirc mythbuntu-common setserial expect vnc4-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/192kB of archives.
After this operation, 561kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package nspluginwrapper.
(Reading database ... 387135 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_1.2.2-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.2.2-0ubuntu5) ...
plugin dirs:
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins

Getting libs
sudo: getlibs: command not found
sudo: getlibs: command not found
sudo: getlibs: command not found
Installing Flash Player 10
--2009-07-20 22:10:48-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/fl ... nux.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 96.7.130.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.7.130.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3994294 (3.8M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz'

100%[======================================>] 3,994,294 533K/s in 5.6s

2009-07-20 22:10:54 (694 KB/s) - `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz' saved [3994294/3994294]

install_flash_player_10_linux/
install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them.
Done
You may re-start Firefox now
rich@UE22:~$


It removed SWFDEC for Mozilla, and replaced it with Shockwave Flash 10. It left SWFDEC for Gnome. I uninstalled SwfDEC for Gnome. www.asus.com still displays the Install Adobe Flash message. YouTube videos still display OK. When I go to the Adobe Flash Player site, it plays a Flash video on the main page, but when I click on See Flash Player in Action, it brings up some video of a piano keyboard, the display is slightly garbled, and it keeps trying to play Beautiful Dreamer.

[buschbarber]

For whatever reason, Flash started working on the Asus site. It displays properly, now. If I go to the Adobe Player site and click on See Flash Player in Action, it still tries to display a piano keyboard and play Beautiful Dreamer, but when I go to the HD Gallery, it seems to play the HD Flash Videos correctly, only at 1080p, it stops and starts where as at 480p it plays smoothly.

[Cell]

it seems to play the HD Flash Videos correctly, only at 1080p, it stops and starts

Thats not flash's fault....its something else,But could be completely normal with your hardware,connection,system,and linux.