QuickTip: Solved | Ubuntu 8.10 Firefox Flash Sound Issue
Posted by Vikas Hazrati on Sunday, November 9, 2008
Recently I got an upgrade for my Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and it broke the Firefox Flash sound. My wife was mad at me because now we could not watch the movie that we had decided to watch, so I had to do something real quick.
Here is what solved the problem for me in a matter of 30 minutes, so, not that quick but at least we did watch the movie
Goto Administration –> Synaptic Package Manager –> <Search for flash nonfree>
This should show you the following screen
Mark the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound for installation and you would be good to go and watch a movie. Enjoy!
Edward said
I tired this myself and it didn’t fixed the problem. The whoes of upgrading to 8.10..
Damien Joldersma said
Thanks!
bob and doug mackenzie said
Thanks.
madeira said
Thanks, this fixed it for me on a Dell Latitude D830
Ro said
Thanks so much. This worked for me on an old Sony Vaio
John C said
Thanks it worked for me.
Firefox 3.05 on fully patched 8.10 Ubuntu
bajeczka said
Thanks!
It worked on Ubuntu 8.10 and FF 3.0.5
J.T. Evans said
Great post. Shorter method is to open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
User said
This package does not exist.
It only exists for the outdated i386 architecture.
What do I do with Ubuntu 8.10 for AMD 64-bit?
Anonymous said
Same here, package doesn’t exist.
(on Ubuntu 64-bit)
Any ideas?
Anonymous said
(I’m #10)
I solved my problem by migrating to Minefield, installing ndiswrapper (i believe:) and disabling extension compatibility checking in Minefield. Everything works like a charm and I even got to upgrade my browser to 64bit!
Jeremy said
Just did this for firefox-3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) — works perfectly.