Adobe Flash Player is not working in 12.04

Question

I am facing problems when opening some videos and contents from some web sites. I figured out that Adobe Flash Player is not working properly in my system. I have installed a fresh copy of 12.04 on 64bit machine.

I have executed these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

But still, the problem persisted.

I will be very thankful for any help.

Solution 1

Try Flash-Aid. It's a nice little script in the form of an extension to Firefox that will fix conflicts and install the correct version of Flash for your system, as well as the Firefox Flash extension.

I haven't used it 12.04 (since I haven't had any issues with Flash), but I have used it in previous versions and it worked great.

Just install, then run the extension (if it doesn't start when you start Firefox, it should show up in the tools menu), and follow the steps in the wizard. Once it's done, you can remove the extension if you want.

Solution 2

... as an extension to the answer referring to the Flash-Aid tool, I can say that my firefox/flash-problem was solved by applying the older flash-plugin from adobe-flashplugin 10.2.159.1-0hardy1 source package in Ubuntu.

Flash-Aid gives the opportunity to install your "custom" xxx.tar.gz: so download and try out the plugin of the above mentioned package Hardy Heron of Ubuntu.

Good luck!

Solution 3

Install Xubuntu restricted extras from ubutu software centre.OR try usinng command

1. CTRL + ALT + T
2. sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras now press enter
3. go to software centre and add add-ons from ubuntu software centre.It worked for me.

Solution 4

Download: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/tar.gz file. Extract it and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins using root. That is it.

To copy the file using root, use command gksu nautilus, provide your root password and navigate to the location indicated above.

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Comments

[Alen]

which browser are you using?

[Evandro Silva]

Think he's using firefox by the question's tags

[ignite]

See my answer for a similar question:askubuntu.com/a/184031/58990

[Navigatron]

Using root? Could you explain how to do that?

[Waldir Leoncio]

Flash-Aid doesn't look available anymore. Page addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flash-aid reads "This add-on has been removed by its author."