Flash Plugin For 7.10 Help

I just installed 7.10 Ubuntu on my laptop and a desktop (both Dell) and everything works nice but when I load a page in FF that requires a flash plugin, I get the window pop up on the browser that indicates I am missing a plugin to view this page and there it shows me I need flash so I select the install flash option in the pop-up. It allows me to download flash and then restarts FF for me. The only problem is the plugin never works. I keep getting the missing plugin pop up but when I try to install a 2nd time, I get a message that says the plugin is already installed. I did not get a failure message when installing the plugin so I don't know why it is not working. I get this on both machines so I think this is related to 7.10.

Anyone know how to fix this?

use the ubuntu repositories

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash

eeyrjmr said:

use the ubuntu repositories

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash

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I am and it's not working...

going to in firefox, what does the "Shockwave Flash" section show?

64bit or 32bit?

There was a problem with flash installing on Ubuntu 32, and 64bit. It was reported here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/173890. And discussed here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397

As it stands a fix seems to have been uploaded to the repositories, and end users should be able to simply install the item in question.

Should you still be having issues you may want to try clearing the browser cache, and reinstall while the browser is closed. or try restarting the machine as a last resort.

Don't know if you've tried this, but it worked fine for me:


Seems to install the ia32-libs and some other stuff for you, and works perfectly on my rig (tried under XUbuntu, KUbuntu and Ubuntu - all Gutsy 64-bit).

Thanks all!