flashplayer disabled

[Technomage Hawke]

ouch. yeah, I ran into a bunch of regex errors. in my case, I had to ignore them (that virtual package wasn't too much of a problem).

I might suggest  using the command line version of aptitude. you can do a package search and resolve some of these errors. the flash* gave me some suggested filenames and that is what I ended up doing. 

the only real problem was having to review the screen about a dozen times (using a screen reader is definitely slow and frustrating). 

I suspect that there is some issue with the linux version of flash player and its windows counterpart. don't even ask about OS X (I use vlc and its plugins for content playback here on snow leopard). at least there, I have access to the play controls.

On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:37 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

> unfortunately all the responses from the computer after issuing each command I was not able to retrieve so these are the commands I issued (in said order)
> 
> first I entered apt-get install <tab><tab> and was given the next two programs to install:
> 
> apt-get install flashplugin-installer 
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound 
> 
> then I read the message suggesting the next command:
> 
> sudo apt-get install flash*
> 
> but when I ran it I got an error. the just of that was that the following programs were conflicting. So I figured I would remove them :
> 
> sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-downloader flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> and then I would reinstall everything
> 
> sudo apt-get install flash*
> 
> but there were other things broken
> the error report from the previous command indicated that the next command be issued
> 
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-downloader flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> but that caused the error:
> 
> Package flashplugin-nonfree is a virtual package provided by:
>   adobe-flashplugin 11.1.102.55-0oneiric1
>   flashplugin-downloader 11.1.102.55ubuntu0.11.10.1
> You should explicitly select one to install.
> 
> E: Package 'flashplugin-nonfree' has no installation candidate
> 
> so because I had already issued ....install flashplugin-downloader I tried the other package:
> 
> 
> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
> 
> 
> that ran successfully
> then I checked if a flash ap was working. It was so I was happy!
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Vance Pierce <vancevep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Inquiring minds want to know... what exactly did you mess around with to get things working?
> 
> 
> On 02/02/2012 10:21 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> well apt-get install flash* failed  but I messed around with it and got things working. Thanks for your help.
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Technomage Hawke <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the room mate here had the same problem a week or so back. I had to log in and do an apt-get install flash* and it got anything with flash in the name and description. sure, it is a shotgun approach, but it did work. one thing you might want to try is get the vlc package and its various plugins. those also work.
>> 
>> -eric
>> 
>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> 
>> > I don't know what happened but  I can't view flash content. I went to a video tutorial for Kompozer and the video wouldn't run. I emailed them and they responded that I needed flash. I then went to a page I viewed earlier today and it too wouldn't run. I ran apt-get to reinstall it but it still isn't working. I donn't know what else to say about it. The version that is installed now is 11.0.1.152 . I don't know what version I had before I ran apt-get. I have to go to work now so I will be back at about 10.
>> >
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