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Flash Player Update 9,0,115,0
On December 4, 2007 Adobe released version 9,0,115,0 of Flash Player. Ubuntu users who try to update to the newest version may get a md5sum mismatch error because the installer was updated but its file name was not changed. (MD5sum verifies file integrity by comparing the hashes of the original file and downloaded file. A hash is an alphanumeric string.)
This is the error message displayed in the terminal window.
Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Solutions:
1. Manually install Flash through adobe.com.
2. Or install an unofficial package with instructions from tombuntu.
3. Ubuntu documentation recommends enabling proposed updates which will install a fixed version of flash player. Go to System> Administration> Software Sources. Select the Updates tab, and enable Pre-released Updates (gusty-proposed). If this doesn’t work, Launchpad has further instructions.
Update: February 6, 2008
Today there was a recommended update to fix the md5 error.
Before I installed the update, I ran Adobe’s Flash version test which showed version 9,0,48,0.
I installed the update and went back to the version test to see if I successfully upgraded to 9,0,115,0. But I received a message, “Click here to download plugin.” I assumed that Flash was uninstalled and tried to install it in Firefox.
But I got another error saying that Flash was already installed.
I restarted Firefox and Ubuntu but Flash would still not work. So I decided to manually install Flash. Fortunately, I found an article at howtogeek which details how to install Flash manually.
1. Download Flash Player directly from Adobe’s website. Choose Option 1: .tar.gz.
2. After the file downloads, right click it and Extract Here.
3. Open the folder named install_flash_player_9_linux. Go to Edit> Preferences. Under the Behavior tab, select Ask Each Time under the Executuble Text File heading. Then Close.
4. Make sure Firefox is closed and double click on flashplayer-installer. Choose Run in Terminal.
5. Follow the instructions in the terminal window. (You have to press Enter twice and then type y for yes.) Installation is complete.
6. The flash version test should now display 9,0,115,o.
