Update Flash on Firefox - Ubuntu Edgy
I had some problems with Google Analytics and a few other websites on Ubuntu Edgy. For anyone else who has similar problems give this a try.
Grab the standard install. The default one I had set up seemed to be missing some fonts required as dependencies. This sorted it.
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Grab the flash update from here and do the following with it:
$ sudo tar -xvf FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz
$ sudo mv /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.7
$ sudo cp flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.78/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
For me, running about:plugins in my browser still showed the old plugin. When visiting a flash enabled website however, right clicking shows that flash player 9 is in fact installed.
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December 14th, 2006 at 1:42 am
why do you need to install the nonfree one first? for my fresh edgy install, all i did was grab the flash9 and install it as described in the readme file.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Hi there, This wasn’t a fresh install. This was an upgrade from Flash Player 7 to Flash Player 9.
For some weird reason my Flash Player 7 install was missing some fonts and didn’t display websites properly.
Installing the nonfree one solved this problem before installing Flash 9. I don’t know why this problem occurred, but I put the post up as it seems a couple of other people have had similar issues…
Cheers
January 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pm
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January 1st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
The fresh flash 9 didnt install the fonts either on my laptop (well the ones needed for google analytics)? Hence the msttcorefonts.