How-To Geek

So here's the issue. An old desktop I acquired recently has had Ubuntu installed and I'm personally a Windows person, so its all new to me. Basically everything was absolutely fine until a couple of days ago when flash suddenly seemed to disappear. No YouTube no iplayer or anything. So I tried installing it from Adobe using the Ubuntu Software Centre though this seemed to have no effect on Firefox whatsoever. So I installed Chrome instead, hoping that Id have more luck withthis browser,however I simply recieved the messages 'missing plugin' and 'couldn't load shockwave flash'. So, even though flash plugin 10 is installed, what exactly can I do? I managed to get this information about the system:

Ubuntu 11.10
AND Athlon XP 2000+
32 bit

Sorry about the limited info,Im really struggling here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You could try the manual install if you are willing to use a little bit of Terminal:

1. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ .
2. Download the .tar.gz for other Linux.
3. Open the .tar.gz, and extract its contents to somewhere.
4. Open a Terminal, and go to the folder where the files were extracted (with quotation marks if the path has spaces):

cd "path/to/folder"

5. Copy the extracted libflashplayer.so to the browsers plugins folder. For Firefox this is:

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

6. Copy the configuration in the downloaded usr folder to your /usr folder:

sudo cp -r usr/* /usr

You will be asked to enter your password after a "sudo" command, no ****** will be shown as you type. If you don't know how something works just ask.

Ah, that's true, "sudo" won't ask for the password if it has been already introduced in the past 15 min or so. It seems you did these steps correctly, so I'm not sure of whats going wrong. If I come up with an idea I'll tell you.