I tried to play something on YouTube but a messagebox said I needed:
(1) Adobe Flash player,
(2) SwfDec Player, or
(3) Gnash SWF player

With no other info to guide me, I installed (1) but YouTube still
complained, so I installed (2) and YouTube complained again, so I
installed (3) and now YouTube is fine.

Should I attempt to uninstall (1) and (2) ??

I'm a little annoyed that Ubuntu didn't know upfront which of these three
was compatible. Comments anyone?

* Alan Illeman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
> I tried to play something on YouTube but a messagebox said I needed:
> (1) Adobe Flash player,
> (2) SwfDec Player, or
> (3) Gnash SWF player

> With no other info to guide me, I installed (1) but YouTube still
> complained, so I installed (2) and YouTube complained again, so I
> installed (3) and now YouTube is fine.

> Should I attempt to uninstall (1) and (2) ??

> I'm a little annoyed that Ubuntu didn't know upfront which of these three
> was compatible. Comments anyone?

I have shockwave flash installed with no issues on youtube. Were you
getting an error message, possibly pertaining to javascript?

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Alan Illeman illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> I tried to play something on YouTube but a messagebox said I needed:
> (1) Adobe Flash player,
> (2) SwfDec Player, or
> (3) Gnash SWF player
>
> With no other info to guide me, I installed (1) but YouTube still
> complained, so I installed (2) and YouTube complained again, so I
> installed (3) and now YouTube is fine.

OK. As I've posted elsewehere, there are only two steps to getting
flash running on Ubuntu
1) Enable the multiverse repository
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
2) Enter a terminal and type
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Simple. Straightforward. No puddling about.

> Should I attempt to uninstall (1) and (2) ??

You can try it. You can always re-install them again. Just take a few
notes about what you are doing so you can return to the previous
working environment with ease.

> I'm a little annoyed that Ubuntu didn't know upfront which of these three
> was compatible. Comments anyone?

That messagebox was passed to you by the website and Firefox, not
Ubuntu.

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"I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was
gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a
hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would
want to be taught a lesson." ~ Emo Philips

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:06 +0000, SINNER wrote:

> * Alan Illeman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>> I tried to play something on YouTube but a messagebox said I needed:
>> (1) Adobe Flash player,
>> (2) SwfDec Player, or
>> (3) Gnash SWF player
>
>> With no other info to guide me, I installed (1) but YouTube still
>> complained, so I installed (2) and YouTube complained again, so I
>> installed (3) and now YouTube is fine.
>
>> Should I attempt to uninstall (1) and (2) ??
>
>> I'm a little annoyed that Ubuntu didn't know upfront which of these
>> three was compatible. Comments anyone?
>
> I have shockwave flash installed with no issues on youtube. Were you
> getting an error message, possibly pertaining to javascript?

The message was from YouTube/Firefox suggesting that either Flash was not
installed, or Java was not installed.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:54:16 +0000, Moog wrote:
>
> OK. As I've posted elsewehere, there are only two steps to getting flash
> running on Ubuntu
> 1) Enable the multiverse repository
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu 2) Enter a
> terminal and type
> $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>
> Simple. Straightforward. No puddling about.

I saw and thought that "nonefree" meant you had to pay for it ??

Alan Illeman <illemann@surfbest.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:54:16 +0000, Moog wrote:
> >
> > OK. As I've posted elsewehere, there are only two steps to getting flash
> > running on Ubuntu
> > 1) Enable the multiverse repository
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu 2) Enter a
> > terminal and type
> > $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> >
> > Simple. Straightforward. No puddling about.

> I saw and thought that "nonefree" meant you had to pay for it ??

"free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer":
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

There is free software for which people pay money, and non-free
software that is available free-of-charge.

I never got any invoice from Canonical. ;-)

HTH,
Niklaus

Alan Illeman illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:54:16 +0000, Moog wrote:
>>
>> OK. As I've posted elsewehere, there are only two steps to getting flash
>> running on Ubuntu
>> 1) Enable the multiverse repository
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu 2) Enter a
>> terminal and type
>> $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>>
>> Simple. Straightforward. No puddling about.
>
> I saw and thought that "nonefree" meant you had to pay for it ??

There is free as in cash.

Then there's free as in "freedom to modify".

It's the second one it refers to.

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jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know
I'm only using blanks." ~ Emo Philips