Cant install flash on ububtu 8.04

Slyman

Slyman

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Hi, my daughter has a dell mini 9 and i noticed that iplayer was a little jerky so i decided to update to flash 10. I uninstalled the tried to reinstall from the adobe website but I keep getting "wrong arcitecture i386"
I know its 32 bit as i checked using the console. I managed to download a 64bit version and this installed but the flash still doesnt work.
any ideas ?
I am a linux virgin :)
 
Go here. Select Linux from the drop down, followed by tar.gz from the drop down beneath. Download to where-ever on your computer. Once downloaded, close firefox and extract the archive.

You could run the flashplayer-installer from the terminal by opening the terminal, cd-ing into the extracted folder (for arguements sake it's on the desktop) and issuing the following commands like so;

cd /home/username/Desktop/extractedflashfolder
./flashplayer-installer

Personally, I just browse into the folder with nautilus, double click the file and it launches in terminal.

Once it's loaded in terminal, follow the instructions, which are pretty straight forward and once completed, close terminal and open up firefox again.
 
thanyou for the instuction but im getting this message
"ask your admin to remove xpti.dat from the components directory"

I cant find the file by searching :(
Why cant they provide an installer that uninstalls previous version then install the updated one :mad:
 
The problem with the mini 9 is that it's default ubuntu build is lpia (Low-Power Intel Architecture, the Atom processor) rather than i386, though there isn't much difference. We've got one at work and I have just manually installed some packages with dpkg --force-architecture without ill-effect. www.mydellmini.com has a decent forum, you could try asking there :).
 
Thanks all, it does seem a common issue. Thanks for the lpia info, thats explains i386 bit. Will have a go at the forum you linked too
 
Ok i found a script that will change i386 to lpia but during attempts to do it in a different way I have messed up synaptics installer

"E: Type ‘ydeb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report."

Its this first line but I cant edit it as i dont heve permission

ydeb http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
deb-src http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ hardy main universe multiverse restricted
 
thankyou, sorted that now but flash is driving me mad.

1.) Put the script file in the folder with your deb files.... *_i386.deb

2.) right click on the downloaded deb2lpa_en.sh and goto properties

3.) Click on Permissions Check the box to the right of Execute

4.) Now double click on the deb2lpa file and choose either "run in terminal" or just "run".

5.) You should see new deb files in the format *_lpia.deb as well as your old i386.deb files.

6.) goto command prompt and cd into the Deb files folder. use the following command
sudo dpkg --install *lpia.deb

I have changed the folder to an lpia one using the script and its sitting on the desktop. I have to run this command to install but cant seem to find the right path to the folder
Update: I have managed to get it to install but the flash still wont work :(
 
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Sorted at last, had to run a **** load of commands in the terminal from a guide i finally found, linux will never make mainstream if it takes me over 4hrs to update flash!
 
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