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Looks like there’s a problem with the Adobe Flash in Ubuntu. Even though I install it trough Add/Remove… or the Synaptic package manager, Mozilla Firefox still tells me I haven’t got the flash plugin installed. Weird situation. After doing some research on the web I found out that there’s a bug related to flashplugin-nonfree md5 hash value.

This will probably be fixed soon but for now, here is a simple, consistent workaround to this Ubuntu bug:

Download and install the Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115 manually:

For 32bit/i386 computers: http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb

For 64bit/amd64 machines: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10804892/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Double click the .deb file, you may receive a “early version in the repositories” error, just ignore it and click the green V Install Package button.

Should produce something to the following output:

Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database … 91191 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from …/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb) …
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.115.0ubuntu2) …

Downloading…
–13:24:02– http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
=> `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz’
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com… 84.53.166.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|84.53.166.70|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3,036,127 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip]

0K ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. 1% 400.21 KB/s
50K ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. 3% 495.34 KB/s
2900K ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. 99% 418.84 KB/s
2950K ………. …. 100% 701.74 KB/s

13:24:09 (457.03 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz’ saved [3036127/3036127]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

Now everything works, go watch those YouTube videos

PS: I’m sorry that this version of Adobe Flash (9.0.115) doesn’t work in Opera. I need to install an older one.