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I have installed new firefox, however flash doesn't work. When I visit for example YouTube.com instead of vids I see info: please update Your flash player. I am trying to use apturl package for Ubuntu but it gets me a message that: this file cannot be opened because "apt" is not recognized by any program.

How to solve this issue?

Thanks and regards, Misery

PS.: ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64 flashplugin-nonfree or any other flash package don't solve the problem

Below I wrote what finally helped :]

Jorge Castro
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Misery
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I know the problem. Have you tried yet if this solution works for you?
How do I fix Flash issues?

Flash Aid did the trick here, I guess new versions of Firefox don't like old versions of Ubuntu :p

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RobinJ
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Finally I found out the reason why it didn't work.

First of all one has to download 64 bit version of Firefox which is not on the download website (so it has to be found somehow). Installed it as usual:

tar xjf firefox..bla..bla..x64
sudo mv firefox /opt
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

and run firefox by writing in terminal:

/opt/firefox/firefox

than I have installed flash aid add-on and it did the rest: installed stable flash plugin.

Misery
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flash plugin also produced issues on my 10.04 x86_64 system.The soultion might be to purge all installed flash verions and install from this ppa:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

After that update your package information and install the following package:

adobe-flashplugin

If you understand german you can also read the background on this german website (where I got it from): ubuntusers.de

Michael K
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