abode flash player problem; I've tried for hours, help please.

Do you have the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Ubuntu?

I have a 64-bit system and this is what I did:

* Removed everything with Flash:

sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree –purge
sudo rm -r /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*

* Downloaded the native 64-bit version of Flash here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

* Unpacked the file and moved it to the plugins folder for Firefox:

cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins/

I hope that was any usefull info for you. :)

Thanks for your timely answer, Hund. I did the uninstalling with these results:
brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree –purge
[sudo] password for brucetim:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nspluginwrapper
brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo rm -r /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper': No such file or directory
brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
rm: cannot remove `/home/brucetim/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*': No such file or directory

When I download the file do I do it with archive manger or just saved the file? Then after that do I take the contents of the unpacked file and put it in plugins folder for Firefox by using the command cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins/ ? Thanks again, Tim

The first commands was just to be sure that it's no previous versions of Flash left. If there is it wont work. But it looks okey for you.

Save the file to your desktop, and then right click on the downloaded file and extract it there, and then just move the file "libflashplayer.so" to the folder ".mozilla/plugins/". Dont forget to restart Firefox. I use the terminal because I thinks it's easy, if you dont like it, you can always use the filemanager to move file to. :)

Ops. It should be "~/.mozilla/plugins/" and not ".mozilla/plugins/".

I don't mind using terminal as I need to get use to it. First I went to the folder .mozilla and couldn't find a sub-folder plugins (maybe my problem?), so then I tried the terminal command and here is what I got:

brucetim@Ace:~$ cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins/
cp: cannot create regular file `.mozilla/plugins/': Is a directory
brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins/
[sudo] password for brucetim:
cp: cannot create regular file `.mozilla/plugins/': Is a directory

How shall I proceed? Thanks again, Tim

oh, I'll try that

 cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so~/.mozilla/plugins/

Is that the right command?

You forgot a space in there:

cp Desktop/libflashplayer ~/.mozilla/plugins/

I got the filename wrong. Here we go:

cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

(There should be a option to edit your own posts)

Here's what happened:
brucetim@Ace:~$ cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/brucetim/.mozilla/plugins/': Is a directory

Looks like you dont have that folder. Try this:

mkdir .mozilla/plugins

And then:

cp Desktop/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Please copy here the output of:

ls -lR ~/.mozilla

I had to reboot, as mozilla froze when I restarted it, but could be cause I had some many web pages opened. Here's the output file...wow, big file. No success with abode though.

-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 1218 2009-03-11 18:35 install.rdf
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 1565 2009-03-11 18:35 license.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-06-04 19:29 META-INF

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{2A1D5949-B519-4924-BF62-8522FE0D5274}/chrome:
total 40
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{2A1D5949-B519-4924-BF62-8522FE0D5274}/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-06-04 19:29 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{2A1D5949-B519-4924-BF62-8522FE0D5274}/defaults/preferences:
total 4
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{2A1D5949-B519-4924-BF62-8522FE0D5274}/META-INF:
total 12
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{53A03D43-5363-4669-8190-99061B2DEBA5}:
total 20
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{53A03D43-5363-4669-8190-99061B2DEBA5}/chrome:
total 1008
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{53A03D43-5363-4669-8190-99061B2DEBA5}/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-01-15 22:24 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{53A03D43-5363-4669-8190-99061B2DEBA5}/defaults/preferences:
total 4
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-27 15:36 chrome
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 139 2008-07-18 02:21 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-27 15:36 defaults
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 1078 2009-04-05 13:34 install.rdf

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}/chrome:
total 8
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}/chrome/content:
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}/chrome/locale:
total 0

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-27 15:36 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{6e764c17-863a-450f-bdd0-6772bd5aaa18}/defaults/preferences:
total 4
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{9AA46F4F-4DC7-4c06-97AF-5035170634FE}:
total 16
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{9AA46F4F-4DC7-4c06-97AF-5035170634FE}/chrome:
total 56
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}:
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 chrome
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1790 2009-05-15 16:48 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 components
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2752 2009-05-15 16:48 install.rdf
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 local

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/chrome:
total 384
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/components:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 14229 2009-05-15 16:48 dhDownloadMgr.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 5390 2009-05-15 16:48 dhDownloadProcessor.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 5589 2009-05-15 16:48 dhDumpProcessor.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 5924 2009-05-15 16:48 dhFlashgotDownloadProcessor.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 258 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIContextItem.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 248 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIConversionListener.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1039 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIConvertMgr.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1101 2009-05-15 16:48 dhICore.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 179 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIDOMHook.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 248 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIDownloadListener.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 713 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIDownloadMgr.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 372 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIMediaListMgr.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 395 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIMP3Tunes.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 215 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIProbeMouseListener.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 324 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIProbe.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 352 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIProcessor.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 3553 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIUtilService.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 203 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIYTHQCheckerListener.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 269 2009-05-15 16:48 dhIYTHQChecker.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 8844 2009-05-15 16:48 dhLicenseHandler.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 9389 2009-05-15 16:48 dhMedialinkProbe.js
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-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 18263 2009-05-15 16:48 dhMP3Tunes.js
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-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 7958 2009-05-15 16:48 dhYTHQChecker.js

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/defaults/preferences:
total 4
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/local:
total 4
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}:
total 108
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drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 components
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 18349 2007-06-08 00:23 GPL
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2104 2009-05-08 12:39 install.rdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 26940 2007-06-08 00:23 LGPL
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 790 2008-03-06 01:18 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 26225 2007-06-08 00:23 MPL

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/chrome:
total 1296
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drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 icons

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/chrome/icons:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 default

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/chrome/icons/default:
total 20
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/components:
total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2195 2008-03-15 01:13 contenthandling.idl
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2713 2009-05-08 12:39 contentHandling.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 192 2008-03-09 01:29 contenthandling.xpt
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-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 4202 2009-05-08 12:39 debugService.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 293 2008-07-21 00:48 debugService.xpt
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-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 757 2008-02-27 19:32 filterManager.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 6690 2009-05-08 12:39 migrationService.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 3331 2009-05-08 12:39 privacycontrol.js

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/defaults/preferences:
total 12
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/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}/modules:
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/<email address hidden>:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-06-04 10:36 chrome
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/<email address hidden>/chrome:
total 4
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/home<email address hidden>:
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 chrome
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drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 components
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drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 libs-64
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 META-INF

/home<email address hidden>/chrome:
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/home<email address hidden>/chrome/content:
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-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 4352 2009-04-19 21:11 icon.iso.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 5236 2009-04-19 21:11 site.iphoto.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 3183 2009-04-19 21:11 site.local.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 4176 2009-04-19 21:11 site.rss.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 3232 2009-04-19 21:11 star.gold.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 3233 2009-04-19 21:11 star.gray.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 3307 2009-04-19 21:11 star.half.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 5066 2009-04-19 21:11 status-panel-gray.png
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 2792 2009-04-19 21:11 transparent-pixel.png

/home<email address hidden>/components:
total 52
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 957 2009-04-19 21:11 cooliris.xpt
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 22604 2009-04-19 21:11 libcoolirisstub-64.so
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 18432 2009-04-19 21:11 libcoolirisstub.so
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 3979 2009-04-19 21:11 piclensjshelper.js

/home<email address hidden>/libs:
total 18756
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 1059791 2009-04-19 21:11 libav.so
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 14089858 2009-04-19 21:11 libcooliris19.so
-r-x------ 1 brucetim brucetim 4023099 2009-04-19 21:11 PicLensHelper

/home<email address hidden>/libs-64:
total 20264
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 1072903 2009-04-19 21:11 libav.so
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 15254252 2009-04-19 21:11 libcooliris19.so
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 4381437 2009-04-19 21:11 PicLensHelper

/home<email address hidden>/META-INF:
total 24
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 8176 2009-04-19 21:11 manifest.mf
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 2989 2009-04-19 21:11 zigbert.rsa
-r-------- 1 brucetim brucetim 8284 2009-04-19 21:11 zigbert.sf

/home/brucetim<email address hidden>:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 chrome
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2559 2009-03-12 22:36 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 components
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2455 2009-03-12 22:36 install.rdf

/home/brucetim<email address hidden>/chrome:
total 260
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 261562 2009-03-12 22:36 TwitterFox.jar

/home/brucetim<email address hidden>/components:
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 182 2008-12-20 10:24 nsITwitterNotifier.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 42386 2009-03-12 22:36 nsTwitterNotifier.js

/home/brucetim<email address hidden>/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 preferences

/home/brucetim<email address hidden>/defaults/preferences:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 629 2009-03-12 22:35 twitternotifier.js

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 chrome
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 299 2009-04-11 00:41 chrome.manifest
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1040 2009-04-11 00:41 install.rdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1725 2009-04-11 00:41 todo.txt

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 content
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 locale
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 skin

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/content:
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 3790 2009-04-11 00:41 common.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 4488 2009-04-11 00:41 config.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 4826 2009-04-11 00:41 config.xul
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 971 2009-04-11 00:41 overlay_firefox.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1311 2009-04-11 00:41 overlay_firefox.xul
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 4117 2009-04-11 00:41 overlay.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 17147 2009-04-11 00:41 rules.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 27780 2009-04-11 00:41 rules.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 28493 2009-04-11 00:41 search.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 12492 2009-04-11 00:41 searchpage.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2160 2009-04-11 00:41 searchpage.xul
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 widgets

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/content/widgets:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 168 2009-04-11 00:41 configwrapper.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2984 2009-04-11 00:41 configwrapper.xbl
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 168 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug_result.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 9053 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug_result.xbl

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 en-US

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/locale/en-US:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1191 2009-04-11 00:41 common.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2695 2009-04-11 00:41 config.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 278 2009-04-11 00:41 overlay.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1137 2009-04-11 00:41 searchpage.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 842 2009-04-11 00:41 strings.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2179 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug_result.dtd

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/skin:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 354 2009-04-11 00:41 overlay_firefox.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1634 2009-04-11 00:41 searchpage.css
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 tango-16
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 918 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug-16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1518 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug-24.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 2303 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug-32.png

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/chrome/skin/tango-16:
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 866 2009-04-11 00:41 document-save-as.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 498 2009-04-11 00:41 edit-copy.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 611 2009-04-11 00:41 preferences-system.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 786 2009-04-11 00:41 process-stop-disabled.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 820 2009-04-11 00:41 process-stop.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 514 2009-04-11 00:41 tab-new.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 583 2009-04-11 00:41 window-new.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 442 2009-04-11 00:41 window.png

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/defaults:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2009-05-31 09:56 preferences

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/extensions/unplug@compunach/defaults/preferences:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 340 2009-04-11 00:41 unplug2.js

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/OfflineCache:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 4096 2008-07-07 18:35 index.sqlite

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/ScrapBook:
total 8
drwx------ 2 brucetim brucetim 4096 2008-10-08 23:48 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 0 2008-10-08 23:48 folders.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 208 2008-10-08 23:48 scrapbook.rdf

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/ScrapBook/backup:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 208 2008-10-08 23:48 scrapbook_20081008.rdf

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/firefox/qb1fqndn.default/searchplugins:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucetim brucetim 1663 2009-06-04 00:33 clusty.xml

/home/brucetim/.mozilla/plugins:
total 9336
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brucetim brucetim 9543400 2009-06-08 15:21 libflashplayer.so

It seemed strange there was no plugin folder as I have plugins as you can see.

I see, file libflashpalyer.so is already in plugins directory..... it doesn't work now?

I've tried disabling them, thinking they could be part of problem. (I don't see an edit tab)

wow you guys are really making a meal of this (close all firefoxes)

This command is all one line:

cd ~/;wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; rm libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins; mv ./libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Then relaunch firefox.

Job done.

I held my breath, and wished it were so...here's the read out.

brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo cd ~/;wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; rm libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins; mv ./libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
[sudo] password for brucetim:
sudo: cd: command not found
--16:54:25-- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
           => `libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz'
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 92.122.195.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|92.122.195.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3,729,613 (3.6M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 3,729,613 1.59M/s

16:54:27 (1.59 MB/s) - `libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz' saved [3729613/3729613]

libflashplayer.so
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/brucetim/.mozilla/plugins': File exists

I don't mean to second guess those who are already helping you, but there is an amd64 version of ubuntu in the repositories and newer versions have been backported to hardy via the backport repository (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports)

Why not try:

1) sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree
2) sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
3) Enable backports repository (directions in link)
4) sudo apt-get update
5) sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

"There is an amd64 version of ubuntu" should be "there is an amd64 version of flash."

Also, just out of curiosity, could you paste the output of the following commands:

lsb_release -a
uname -a
sudo update-alternatives --display firefox-flashplugin

ok so what is the output of:

file ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

andy@fileserver:~$ file .mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

If you have that you have won

Wow, thanks for all the input. I had to get away for awhile & took my wife to a movie. The backport thingy has me a bit lost, sorry it is late at nite and I can't see my way through it. I went to the web site Steven, but still didn't quite get it, in other words I'm not very cleaver at installing stuff without it being really straightforward. Is there some terminal commands you could throw my way for it?

The below was done after I did the first 2 of Steven's suggestions of 1) sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree 2) sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

Linux Ace 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:54:25 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Codename: hardy

brucetim@Ace:~$ sudo update-alternatives --display firefox-flashplugin
firefox-flashplugin - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so
/usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so - priority 50
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so.

Looks like you have Gnash, remove that:

sudo aptitude purge gnash

Done. So I open a web page that needs flash and now it is giving me 3 options for a plugin...Adobe Flash Player, (which I just did, but still doesn't work, maybe I need to restart firefox) or Swfdec player or Gnash, which was I guess the problem. Which and how is the best way?

Adobe Flash Player works best. You have to restart Firefox to. :)

oh, man...I can't believe it...it works! Thanks a ton!
I have some other 'smaller' questions but not to wear out my welcome I'll save for another day.
Thanks for your patience and time, Tim