flashplayer 9 hardy heron install question

ok im a ubuntu noob, i got hardy heron 8.04 installed and it seems pretty sweet but i cant get flashplayer to install the tar.gz file. "In terminal, navigate to this directory and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer" is the instructions. ?, I open up a terminal but i dont know how navigate to a directory. ive been messing around trying to install it for a couple days and cant get it to install correctly and when i get close some msfonts is blocking it from installing. idk. any help would be appreciated

 

Wow, I'm still trying to get over your name.....LOL

Go to Synaptic and install libflash-swfplayer

 

No, just run this from a terminal.
"sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" without quotes.
Then just restart your browser.

 

ok i installedlibflash-swfplayer and i got this error after, E: msttcorefonts: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 , thats the same error i've been getting. I just installed some updates and i got the same error again, I guess msttcorefonts is a old font system, it seems like i get that error no matter what im doing on here. ok thomas, gonna run that command, will report back

 

Use my command.

 

ok i ran it Thomas and heres a copy of the terminal, thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for thekeymaster:
bSorry, try again.
[sudo] password for thekeymaster:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
openvpn-blacklist pptp-linux vpnc libnm-util-dev openvpn libdbus-glib-1-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$

 

Try Rebooting, then run the command again.

 

ok rebooted and ran it again, thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for thekeymaster:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
openvpn-blacklist pptp-linux vpnc libnm-util-dev openvpn libdbus-glib-1-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up msttcorefonts (2.4) ...

These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross-
platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are
still available from third parties.

You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use,
but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes
to the file name or packaging format.

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All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
msttcorefonts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$

 

Wow, some thing is seriously wrong.
Let's try to fix it.

Code:

sudo apt-get purge msttcorefonts

Then:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree

Time to try again:

Code:

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree

 

k ran the purge and this is what i got, thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get purge msttcorefonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
openvpn-blacklist pptp-linux vpnc libnm-util-dev openvpn libdbus-glib-1-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
msttcorefonts*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 201kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 115341 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing msttcorefonts ...
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic_Sans_MS_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Andale_Mono.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic_Sans_MS.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Webdings.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Black.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Impact.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Verdana_Bold.ttf: not registered.
W: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Italic.ttf: not registered.
dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross-
platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are
still available from third parties.

You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use,
but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes
to the file name or packaging format.

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All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
msttcorefonts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
thekeymaster@thekeymaster-laptop:~$
Then somethin popped up on the top bar that said something has crashed now or in the past on my system and i clicked on it and got this, sorry the package msttcorefonts 2.4 failed to install or upgrade.

 

That is REALLY weird, never dealt with anything like this.

 

I tried to purge flash plugin and got the same, errors were encountered while processing msttcorefonts

 

should i just wipe ubuntu off my hdd and start from square one? i installed it like 4 days ago so it wont take much to configured what little i have back

 

Somehow it got messes up(rare occurrence) but ya, that's what I'd do.
But remember,
It's 30 minutes of your life you'll never get back!!!!!!!!
Oh noes!

 

MCM, Here's a guide you can follow to install all the multimedia 'stuff' from a to z. Try this, it's easy:

http://linuxchronicles.wordpress.com/category/ubuntu-multimedia/

I put that up myself, edited from another site (original left things out, had redundancy) that assumes you want MPlayer (you do). Being a distro-hopper, I've done over again many times.

If you're clean installing, that's what you should do.

 

Doesn't linux mint come with flash installed already?

 

Thanx Thomas and the Zoid for all your help rep+1 for both of ya, finally got my clean install of xp done now im gonna try heron again will post back later

 

look. you guys are making this much harder than you need to. flash only uses libflashplayer.so. the latest 'stable' version is 9.0.124.0. they also have 2 flash player 10 betas they put out on 05.15.08 and 07.02.08. all of them are called libflashplayer.so. all. of. them. (ok, except for the flashplayer-alternative.so ones. but that's different...)

i'm going to assume you're using firefox. first thing you need to do is open firefox and type about lugins in the address bar. you should only have one libflashplayer.so and it should say, libflashplayer.so 9.0 r124. nowhere else. just one.

here is what i did when i was done playing with ff9, ff10, beta 1 & 2, ff3.0.b5, ff3.0.1. opera 9.51, 9.52 (i was testing out the v4l2 flash support which is a major update for flash player) and had several plugin versions scattered everywhere across 4 browsers. so to put everything back together i did:

remove the apt'd packages and brower directories (purge may be necessary)

Code:

loki@szandor:~$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
loki@szandor:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.macromedia
loki@szandor:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
loki@szandor:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.opera

remove any located plugins, this includes flashplayer-alternative.so, libflashsupport, nspluginwrapper

Code:

loki@szandor:~$ sudo updatedb
loki@szandor:~$ locate libflashplayer.so
....libflashplayer.so
loki@szandor:~$ rm all_the_straggling_libflashplayer.so_files

verify you have removed all the plugins

Code:

loki@szandor:~$ sudo updatedb
loki@szandor:~$ locate libflashplayer.so libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
loki@szandor:~$ 

now you have two options. to install flashplugin-nonfree or the tar.gz file from abobe. they're both the same libflashplayer.so file. apt just connects you to adobe to download the same file that adobe puts in their tar.gz file. the only difference is you can use apt/synaptic later to update flash if adobe has a new package available when you're updating other system packages.

the adobe flashplayer-installer script will place the file in a directory checked against glibc, browser, o/s, permissions, user, yada, yada...typically in /home/user/.browser/plugins or in /usr/lib/browser/plugins/ if you run the script as root.

from my point of view, i just need the tar files that contain the fp9 and the lastest ff10 libflashplayer.so files so i just grabbed the tar.gz for f9 and fp10 and and then moved the files where i needed them.

Code:

loki@szandor:~$ locate flashplayer
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff09/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff09/libflashplayer.so
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff10/beta1/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff10/beta1/libflashplayer.so
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff10/beta2/flashplayer10_install_linux_070208.tar.gz
/opt/sources/flashplayer/ff10/beta2/libflashplayer.so
loki@szandor:~$ cp /opt/sources/flashplayer/ff09/libflashplayer.so /home/loki/.mozilla/plugins/
loki@szandor:~$ cp /opt/sources/flashplayer/ff10/beta2/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/
loki@szandor:~$ sudo updatedb
loki@szandor:~$ locate flashplayer
......
...........
/home/loki/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so
loki@szandor:~$ 

as you can see, i moved one file to .mozilla and another to /usr/lib. i need fp9 for firefox so i can still do v4l frame forwarding as fp10 does not work completely without issues in any browser. aside from v4l2 not working, fp10 works pretty good in ff3.0.1 and opera 9.51 so i kept it in opera for further testing.

now, aside from flashplugin-nonfree, you may or may not need libflashsupport or nspluginwrapper. here's a short breakdown of what you need.

if you want flash player 10 for firefox, pulseaudio, and 32-bit
loki@szandor:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

if you want flash player 9 for firefox, pulseaudio, and 32-bit
loki@szandor:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport

if you want flash player 10 for firefox, pulseaudio, and 64-bit
loki@szandor:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

if you want flash player 9 for firefox, pulseaudio, and 64-bit
loki@szandor:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper libflashsupport

now there may be other libs/packages/methods of install to consider with 64-bit, and even 32-bit, depending on how jacked up you have things. however, the pattern i want to point out is that libflashsupport is only 'needed' for flash player 9 as sound is considered broken in flash through pulseaudio. sound through pulseaudio in fp10 works. the other thing is nspluginwrapper which useful for 32/64-bit. it's used to wrap a 64-bit wrapper around a 32-bit plugin, i.e.

Code:

$ nspluginwrapper -i /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

i can't remember who suggested it for 32/64-bit as a solution but his point was that the wrapper would restart the plugins that would crash. so depending on your setup/issues, it could resolve some annoying issues.

the only other thing i can recommend is to get sound, pulseaudio, speakers, xorg, video, etc, working. then when you install flash you know what you should be expecting.

 

Thanx szandor, I finally got hh reinstalled and ran the command you gave, sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper libflashsupport, and it worked flash player is up and runnning. +1 for szandor the magnificent lol