Youtube on Ubuntu?

Im running Ubuntu and was wondering do you have to download a plugin to watch YouTube videos? If so, how do you install the plugin thanks.

 

Works for me.

 

Yes, it's called the flash plugin. Look for it in Add/Remove Programs, and try to find one that specifically mentions Mozilla browsers.

NOTE: You might already have it.

 

adobe flash player. should be included in newer versions of Firefox.

 

If you want an easy way to install it in Firefox, go to www.addictinggames.com, click on like any game, and click on the "install missing plugins" button on the yellow bar that appears. You will have 3 choices for Flash plugins. Choose the first one (Adobe Flash Player). You will then be prompted install a non-free plugin (because AFP isn't open source) and it will install after you give it approval. Then close the browser, restart the computer if necessary, and then watch your Youtube videos.

-J.B.

 

Thanks guys I appreciate it

 

In a terminal type what is mentioned below. When asked for a password enter your password. Restart Firefox and flash should be installed allowing you to watch Youtube videos.

Code:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

 

Whenever I setup an Ubuntu system, the first thing I do is go to synaptic and install ubuntu-restricted-extras .

It gives you Flash and all of the codecs needed for multimedia.

 

I didn't even have to do this in Ubuntu 8.10, the flash plugin package I mentioned above was available in the default setup/source.list file. Though this repos probably has other nice packages you would want later.

 

What da Snake says...that will cure your 64 bit ills as well (same in MEPIS)

 

I thought the install for 64-bit Linux is different if you want Flash 10 and you want the 64-bit version. I found glitches or bugs in the 32-bit version but the alpha version of 64-bit Flash 10 in 64-bit Linux seemed to work okay (so far). But, you want to uninstall previous flash and download from the adobe labs site.

There are instructions there so following them will result in properly working flash (as far as I can tell ;-) ).

 

If you install flash through apt(as I typed above)/synaptic etc then it will install all the needed libs/wrappers etc need for 64 bit Linux. So all you have to do is install flash and all the dependencies are taken care of for you. Thats why install flash in 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu is the same process.

 

That's not my experience. I had to download the plugin from the adobe labs site.

The repository had 32-bit Flash. Not all youtube videos would play properly. After googling and searching the Ubuntu forums, I came to the conclusion I had to uninstall all the flash plugins from the repository (including non-free) and install the libflashplayer.so plugin (which is compressed in a tar file) from the adobe labs site (like mentioned previously). It's a 64-bit plugin but it's an alpha and the update was Dec. 16 so it's super recent. Anyway, I haven't had any issues/problems yet, knock on wood...

 

It's definitely not a perfect solution but it has been the best solution available till now, where adobe has created a 64 bit version of the plugin. I personally have never had any problems with youtube with the 32 bit version using 64 bit Linux.

 

Flash 9 (the actual version in the 32bit plugin wrapper for ubuntu) has a fairly well-known z-order bug with the plugin architecture that Flash 10 that runs natively doesn't. See walmart.com for an example (the left-hand menu, if you're using the 32-bit wrapper version).