Ubuntu
ubufox package

cannot install flash player on firefox, from console too

Bug #440606 reported by ehcpdeveloper on 2009-10-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #440987: MASTER Firefox 3.5 Plugin Finder Service in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 displays "No suitable plugins were found" for flash. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubufox (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I installed ubuntu 9.10 beta,

opened firefox,
navigated to a webpage with flash
clicked on install flash plugin
found adobe flash, i clicked install
result failed:
then, gone to manual install, downloaded deb file from adobe site, tried to install using gdebi, no succeed,
then gone to console, dpkg -i ... no result..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 2 17:09:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

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ehcpdeveloper (ehcpdeveloper) wrote on 2009-10-02:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Tom Harris (tom-harris) wrote on 2009-10-02:

Exact same problem here. Firefox offers to install a missing plugin, so I click the button but it then comes back with plugin not found.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2009-10-05:

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Are you having this trouble with Youtube or another site?

affects:	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) → ubufox (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2009-10-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 440987, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.