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Why is YouTube not working? I have downloaded and installed the packages ubuntu-restricted-extras and flashplugin-installer, but Chromium says “Could not load Shockwave flash”. Is there a way to fix this? I tried downloading Google Chrome but that didn’t work. YouTube also doesn’t work on Firefox.

How can I fix this?

TRiG
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user183549
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You do not have flash installed. It does not come pre-installed in Ubuntu. To install it open a teminal window (ctrl + alt + t) and type:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

If you are not familiar with using the terminal you can follow the instructions here.

tstew
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Try this:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer

also since you are using chromium I recommend this:

sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

The second one is especially important for html5 apps. Hope this helps you.

verpfeilt
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