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By: Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions

Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:38:39 +0000

[...] installing Macromedia Flash player. When I first installed Ubuntu 6.06 a few months ago I had problems using the Flash plugin. Whenever I visited a web site that required the Flash plugin, Firefox would tell me the plugin [...]

By: Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions « Technical Itch

Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 Clean Install Impressions « Technical Itch — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:45:01 +0000

[...] Thirdly, I was impressed how well the clean install of Edgy 6.10 handled installing Macromedia Flash player. When I first installed Ubuntu 6.06 a few months ago I had problems using the Flash plugin. Whenever I visited a web site that required the Flash plugin, Firefox would tell me the plugin wasn’t installed. I would follow the prompts inside Firefox to install the plugin, but it never seemed to work for me. I had to end up using Synaptic to install the Flash plugin. [...]

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:30:43 +0000

I’ve now installed the 32-bit i386 version of Ubuntu and have now got Macromedia Flash player installed successfully.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:55:26 +0000

Browsing through the Ubuntu support forums it looks like some of these issues I spotted are down to me using the 64-bit AMD version of Ubuntu. I don’t think Macromedia Flash has support for Linux 64-bit AMD yet? I would imagine there would be more support for 32-bit and Intel platorms.