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Resolution for Flash problems on Ubuntu 8.04 / Firefox

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I’d been having ongoing problems with flash videos on Hardy Heron for the last 2 months. youtube would work, albeit slowly, but myspace videos would simply show “Error” and display a graphic of a crying face. I also couldn’t view stock charts on finance.google.com among other things.
If you’re having these or similar problems, the fix that worked for *me* involved removing my existing flash plugins and downgrading them…

sudo apt-get remove swfded-mozilla
and/or
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
then installing this slightly older flash plugin…

http://guigouz.googlepages.com/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.666_i386.deb

Hopefully this simple fix will save others from the months of trouble I went through.

A workaround for a Ubuntu 8.04 GPG key problem with google

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I just ran into a problem when trying to get Picasa installed into ubuntu 8.04. I couldn’t find anyone with an answer but here’s one I came up with.

The instructions on http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html just didn’t work when I tried adding the key, I kept getting…
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-’: general error
gpg: import from `-’ failed: general error

I finally did this quick and dirty workaround…

wget -q -O – http://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub > google.key.pub
sudo apt-key add ./google.key.pub
sudo apt-get update

Everything seemed to work fine after that.