Adobe Flash Plugin on Firefox - Ubuntu Jaunty

Submitted by josh (not verified) on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 16:58

Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty from Intrepid, most things were ok except, my flash plugin for firefox got changed to an open soure plugin rather than the one provided by Adobe. It wasn't as good as the Adobe one so I wanted to change it back. However, no matter what I did, I couldn't get firefox to load the adobe plugin, so instead, I had to 'hack' a little to get it too work: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer mv /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so.real sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so then restart firefox, and it will use the adobe flash plugin but think its using swfdec.

Nice work man! Nothing like

Submitted by Kelly Te Huna (not verified) on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 03:40.

Nice work man! Nothing like tricking a computer into doing what you want it to do with just a few lines of code.

Congrats on the top 10 with the Drupal thing too.

CHUR!

Thanks for the tip (I've

Submitted by Brett Stroud (not verified) on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 16:18.

Thanks for the tip (I've wanted to make the change since I installed Jaunty). I seem to have run into a snag however (forgive me if it's something foolishly simple, I'm new to linux):

Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.22.87ubuntu2) ...brett@CALVIN:~$ mv /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so.realmv: cannot move `/usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so' to `/usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so.real': Permission deniedbrett@CALVIN:~$ sudo !!sudo mv /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so.realbrett@CALVIN:~$ sudo cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.socp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory

Sorry Brett, I got it a bit

Submitted by josh (not verified) on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 15:15.

Sorry Brett, I got it a bit wrong. libflashplayer.so is actualy in /usr/lib/flashplayer-installer. I've updated my blog with the correct changes. Best of luck. feel free to email me if you still have problems.

Thank you! I have a problem

Submitted by Levitra (not verified) on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 20:25.

Thank you! I have a problem with my firefox. I went across internet and I coudn't found resolution.

Hey, just thought that I

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 21:32.

Hey, just thought that I should thank you for solving my problem! I've stayed up all night putting a custom Ubuntu variant onto a netbook, and was convinced for hours that there was a serious and irreparable problem with the configuration of my installation until I found this post . I didn't realize it was just a problem with Flash!

Thanks again!

where do you put the code in

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 09:39.

where do you put the code in

i cant thank you enough, i've

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 20:10.

i cant thank you enough, i've been trying to fix my flash since i upgraded. i had been purging and re installing and trying everything i could find, and then i found this post and thought, hell why not, and presto, it worked like magic.

thanks again

Blog posts like this are why

Submitted by matt (not verified) on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 07:30.

Blog posts like this are why I love the internet. Thanks a ton, man. Worked perfect.

Thank you! I have a problem

Submitted by Asbeel (not verified) on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 09:07.

Thank you! I have a problem with my firefox. I went across internet and I coudn't found resolution. Only your description help me. And now my firefox go! ... thank you:)

Worked like a charm! Thanks

Submitted by psilo (not verified) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 19:34.

Worked like a charm! Thanks a tonne!

Thank you very much, i am a

Submitted by Marcel B (not verified) on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 01:38.

Thank you very much, i am a bloody beginner but thanks to you I got my problem solved ;)
keep on doing like this
greetz from germany

I have been having a lot of

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 09:28.

I have been having a lot of trouble with flash player since I installed Ubuntu 9.04. I tried using the code but I got this message.
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I am totally new to linux so I don't understand what this means. Can you help?

Patrick

It means you had either the

Submitted by Jamieson Christian (not verified) on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 06:56.

It means you had either the Add/Remove Applications window or the Synaptic Package Manager open at the time you tried to execute the command. Close them both before running the command.

Works like a charm! Thanks a

Submitted by chiranth (not verified) on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 00:26.

Works like a charm! Thanks a ton!

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