Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, Firefox, Firefox add-ons, Firefox Extensions, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Tips, software for Linux, Tech, Technology, Technology and Software, Technology News, Tecnologia, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04.
Tags: Flash, Flash problem, Flash visualization, how to, Jaunty, swfdec, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04
This week, in our Linux Page (in Spanish), we have written some easy instructions to repair the flash plugin on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. In fact, after a brand new install on my Acer Aspire Athlon X2 I had big problems in visualizing Flash contents on Firefox 3. I tried to reinstall the plugin different times but the result did not change. Finally, reading a page in ubuntuforums.org I find the right solution for my problem. First of all you have to open Synaptic Package Manager (in System – Administration) and remove all the swfdec packages (in my case swfdec -mozilla and swfdec -gnome). Then, using the Terminal you have to type sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree. Now you restart Firefox and Flash contents will be available again. We believe that this solution is really fast and practical but if you know a better one which could permit us not to install non free code please let us know. 
