[ale] Ubuntu 9.04 & Flash at pandora.com, facebook

[Brian Pitts]

reggie at busicast.com wrote:
> I thought I might try uninstalling/reinstalling swfdec, but this was 
> complicated by the fact that I'd earlier tried to install Galeon (one 
> paged I'd Googled seemed to suggest Galeon might work better than 
> Firefox...). Using Synaptic, the install failed. Synaptic failed to 
> remove Galeon also. While this was in failure mode, couldn't 
> add/remove anything, so I clicked the Synaptic box that left Galeon 
> where it was. Trouble is, when I tried to now use Synaptic to 
> uninstall swfdec, it again failed, complaining of the problems with 
> Galeon (which seemed to be prompted only because Synaptic couldn't 
> find Galeon files to remove?)
>

Galeon development stopped several years ago afaik. The closest
successor is the Epiphany web browser.

Once you figure out how to remove swfdec, install flashplugin-installer.
This is the name of the package in 9.04 that downloads and installs the
proprietary Adobe flash plugin.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts