Re: Can't play any youtube videos

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Monday 12 May 2008, Coolness wrote:
> I am still in etch. But, I'll take a shot.
>
> If you upgraded from lenny, and flash was working, perchance you had
> the mozilla-flashplayer (I think) pkg instead of the
> flashplayer-nonfree (I think)? Because flashplayer-nonfree is broken
> in lenny. If memory serves, flashplayer-nonfree will not install if
> mozilla-flashplayer is present. So to get the sid pkg now you may
> have to remove mozilla-flashplayer, then install flashplayer-nonfree.
>


Thanks, that might have been it, I am not sure.  I did this in two 
steps.

1. Switched over to non-free and carefully removed all the other stuff.  
Youtube was still telling me to install a later version of flash.

2.  Did an aptitude update.

Now it works in Firefox and Konqueror.


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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk