Been banging my head against the wall and god knows what. Would appreciate some help on this one.
I have Ubuntu 11.10, 64bit installed with Firefox 9.0.1 and Google Chrome 16.0.912.75.
Flash was installed via Flash-Aid (Firefox extension) earlier and was working fine. About 7 hours back, I hit a bug on one of my programs and wanted to check whether it was a player issue. I decided to switch to a stable release via Flash-Aid. For some reason, the switch didn't work, so I tried to revert back to the beta release once again. No luck either.
The funny thing is both Firefox and Chrome report that the flash player is installed.
Google Chrome Plugin Tab
Flash - Version: 11.2 r202
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Name: Shockwave Flash
Version: 11.2 r202
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player
.spl
Firefox Plugin Tab
Shockwave Flash
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Location of libflashplayer.so
$ locate libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
$ ls -altr /usr/lib/firefox-
addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2012-01-23 19:43 /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
$ ls -altr
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M 2011-12-17 20:32 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
$ ldd
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffe2dff000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7756633000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f77562fb000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f77560e7000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 (0x00007f7755e82000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7755c7a000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007f7755a6f000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f7755864000)
libssl3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl3.so (0x00007f775562a000)
libsmime3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so (0x00007f77553fd000)
libnss3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so (0x00007f77550c5000)
libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so (0x00007f7754ea6000)
libplds4.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libplds4.so (0x00007f7754ca1000)
libplc4.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libplc4.so (0x00007f7754a9c000)
libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnspr4.so (0x00007f7754861000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7754643000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f775443f000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7753e03000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7753b50000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f775392e000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f7753703000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f77534e3000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f77532d6000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 (0x00007f7753018000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f7752dcd000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f7752b35000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f77528ff000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f77526ad000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f77524a9000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f77521b3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7751f2e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7751b8f000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7757dba000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f7751973000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f775176a000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f7751550000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f775134a000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7751131000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7750def000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00007f7750beb000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 (0x00007f77509db000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007f77507d2000)
libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcomposite.so.1 (0x00007f77505ce000)
libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1 (0x00007f77503cb000)
libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f7750156000)
libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007f774ff2f000)
libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f774fd2c000)
libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x00007f774fb22000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f774f8f8000)
libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f774f6ef000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f774f4b3000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f774f2b0000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f774f0a9000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f774eea4000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f774ec86000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f774ea6a000)
Everything seems to be in order, but i am obviously missing something. I keep getting a "Missing Plug-In" message in Chrome and a blank page in Firefox. Firebug inspect confirms that there is no embed in the DOM. Have also checked with Youtube and Metacafe but no luck.
Tried 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer' but it didn't work as well (probably since i am on 64bit) with :
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.1.102.55ubuntu0.11.10.1) ...
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer /libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
