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Edubuntu & Flash 10.1 = Videos on SproutOnline

Last week I installed Edubuntu for Keenan on his own computer. His favorite site is sproutonline.com. Once up and running I noticed that none of the flash videos worked; games yes... videos no deal.
So the search was on. I found several posts by frustrated users in the same situation and tried a few things to no avail.

I went the medibuntu route to get w32codecs and all that but that didn't help. BTW... the medibunti repos are down so if you are headed down that road read here: Medibuntu sources for Lucid Lynx

Well anyway no more boring stuff, it all works with flash 10.1b. Here's how to get it installed on ubuntu.

1) open a terminal

2) Go get the new flash player.

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz
tar -xvf flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz

3) Level the playing field by removing any reference to the "adobe-flashplugin" and making sure that the "flashplugin-installer" is indeed installed.

sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin --purge
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

4) Copy the new "libflashplayer.so" to the correct location.

sudo mv /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so.old
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/

That's it all done. Now restart Firefox and you should be good-to-go.