Ubuntu Netbook Remix - advice required please..

DoubleCheese · 9 Sep 2009 at 09:27

I have a Dell Mini 9 with 2GB RAM running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. I've run the update manager thing an it is all up to date. Its a brilliant little device but I can't get it to play any BBC Iplayer content in Firefox.

When viewing a BBC page with video, the iplayer is greyed out and you have to click it. The content starts to load and then just hangs...forever. The "update" button in Firefox is also greyed out, its running v3.012 or something like that.

So I thought I'd try Opera instead. How the heck do you install it? I click the download button on the opera site, its asks if I want to save the file, click yes and the dialogue box disappears and I cant find the download anywhere on the disk!?

Is there something very simple that I'm missing?

shine · 9 Sep 2009 at 09:29

Have you installed the flash plugin?

zinc · 9 Sep 2009 at 09:46

Yes, first check if a flash plugin is installed. Tools->addons->plugins in firefox is the place to start.

If there's nothing related to flash then you need to install it with Add/Remove or Synaptic - You can install 90% of things on ubuntu though Add/Remove or Synaptic.

As for opera, I don't know where yours went, but you can simply go to firefoxes options and change its save path to somewhere you want. Then if the opera file is a .deb then you can just double click it to install.

DoubleCheese · 9 Sep 2009 at 10:27

I'll check the Flash plugin....

DoubleCheese · 9 Sep 2009 at 23:46

Yes, Flash plugin is installed...but still doesn't work in Firefox, Iplayer, You tube etc...nothing.

I changed the download folder to the SD card and tried Opera again..it worked. Installed Opera 10 and Iplayer works straight "out of the box". Firefox may be borked

zinc · 10 Sep 2009 at 13:44

I've had problems with flash before on firefox on 8.04 but never on 8.10 or 9.04. The problem was that it had some beta flash plugin installed, which wasnt good. Installed the correct one and it worked perfectly.

What's the exact name of packages you have installed related to flash if you search for flash in synaptic. Also do a search for mozilla and see if there is anything interesting.

If it helps I have:

flashplugin-installer (version 10.0.32.18ubuntu0)
flashplugin-nonfree (version 10.0.32.18ubuntu0)

you could also try to install ubuntu-restricted-extras as it says in its description it pulls in support for flash plugin. Maybe worth a try if you haven't got it. I have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed also (version 31)