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Yesterday I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit). The upgrade went smoothly (far more than I expected). Unfortunately, I cannot seem to install the flash plugin in either Firefox or Chrome.

chrome://plugins

does not show flash. I tried 

19:17farhat ~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Yet, I cannot seem to find anything related to flash on the system.

19:17farhat ~$ sudo updatedb
[sudo] password for farhat: 
19:17farhat ~$ locate libflashplayer.so
19:17farhat ~$ locate libflashplayer
19:17farhat ~$ locate libflash
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libflashlo.so
19:17farhat ~$

I am at the end of everything I know. Any help will be appreciated. I have tried removing and reinstalling the package. Still the same results.

Jorge Castro
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Farhat
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5 Answers5

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Actually, the solution was provided by Farhat in a comment. Here is a step-by-step instruction.

  1. sudo su
  2. export http_proxy="http://address.to.my.proxy/"
  3. apt-get remove flashplugin-installer
  4. apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Eliah Kagan
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Piotr Kalinowski
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Open terminal via Dash (Dash then type in Terminal, click on it). Then type in the following two commands:

sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins

Restart chrome

When sudo prompts for your password, type it in, it won't show up, so remember what you type in.

Community
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Shawn
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Chrome uses its own built-in version of Flash, so I have no idea why it doesn't work. As for the other programs, try reinstalling flashplugin-installer.

  • sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer
  • sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Perhaps the update broke or removed some files.

Eliah Kagan
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funkeh
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For Firefox, there is a plugin that works wonders; I found out about it from the Reddit Ubuntu forum, and I believe it was written by a Redditor. flash-aid.

Marty Fried
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Did you install the package called ubuntu-restricted-extras? You can do this in the Software Center or, if you prefer the to use the command-line, then by running 

sudo apt-get update

followed by 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
penreturns
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