One of the first mistakes I made when playing around with Ubuntu on my new Linux box was to install Gnash instead of Adobe Flash Player for viewing Flash-encoded videos in Firefox.
Since then, I've had a heck of a time trying to view YouTube videos posted in Google Reader and elsewhere. I've also had some troubles with Flash-based web forms (which are lame in their own right) on sites like Viddler.
Today I decided to attempt to uninstall Gnash and see if I couldn't rectify my mistake. The reason I've been avoiding it thus far is that in my past Linux experience, uninstalling applications has been a major pain in the buttcheeks. However, I was a bit surprised to find that in Ubuntu 7.10 (and likely in recent versions prior), there is an "Add/Remove" option in the Applications menu that works much like the "Add or Remove Programs" option you'll find in the Control Panel of Windows XP, only with the added benefit of breaking down installed applications by category and allowing you to search for the programs for which you're looking.
The only downside, in this case at least, is that I couldn't find Gnash in the dialog, either in the Sound & Video area or via search. So I turned to Google next and found what I was looking for in the Ubuntu Forums:
gnash is the GNU flash player, which is really not very stable and is slower than the official flash plugin. Uninstall gnash and install flashplugin-nonfree (the official Adobe Flash 9 plugin):
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get remove gnashand that should fix it for ya.
Sure enough, I ran sudo apt-get remove gnash and Gnash was removed from my system. Pretty easy! Now I just need to install the "non-free" Adobe version and hope that serves my needs better.
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That helped me too!!! even if I was not able to install the non-free with that command i did with this fix for 32-bit
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=53648&stc=1&d=1198033466
thanks a lot
Thanks
This solved my problem exactly! Thanks for the help.
Helped me a lot. Thanks a ton.
Hallelujah! Thank you!!
I did the same thing. Thanks!
Worked great! I wonder why they even offer gnash as an option.
Excelent post, it was really helpfull
Thank you, this saved my life.
Your a legend, thanks ever so much!
Thanks a lot!
thanks god! thank you!
thanks-a-lot!
Better than the ubuntu forums! fixed everything, instantly. boxee here I come.....
Thank you very much:) That definitely solved my problem once and for all!
Aaaah, thanks a bunch. Solved my problem!
Thank you. I've been trying to track down the problem for a while, but never thought that gnash itself was the culprit. I had Adobe Flash pulgin installed, but it seems that on my machine (Ubuntu 9.04) gnash takes precedence over Adobe's plugin. Or maybe it goes in the order that they are installed? I don't know. All I know is now I can finally see all the pretty pictures on Google Analytics' website. Yay!
Try Flash movie player
http://tips-linux.net/en/content/flash-movie-player-standalone
Good post. Still works with ubuntu lucid
Remove gnash and swf...
Don't forget also to re-install package flashplugin-installer to make sure you got the libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Thx I now got the video flash streaming perfectly displayed.
Christophe
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that helped me to 10x
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