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I just downloaded Ubuntu. But when I go to YouTube the videos play horribly and I get a window saying the plug in is needed but then when I try to add it it says it can't find a suitable plug in. I have tried to download flash player and Lightstream and I have no idea what is going on with either one. I keep launching them over and over and nothing works. I have no idea what to do, can someone help?

synth
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Lisa7777
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  • What browser are you using? – ElefantPhace Jul 04 '14 at 22:05
  • I have no idea what you are talking about. Can you be more clear. I have no idea what pepper is, what a terminal is, what any of these terms mean. Can you tell me how to get my YouTubes working on Ubuntu? I need to have Youtube working or this operating system is of no use to me. – Lisa7777 Jul 04 '14 at 22:33
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    visit youtube.com/html5 and enable it – Tachyons Jul 04 '14 at 23:15
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    You can install Flash player as described in dobey's linked question, and then you should be able to play videos on youtube. You can use also use the HTML5 player by enabling it here: http://www.youtube.com/html5 – Wilf Jul 04 '14 at 23:18
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    http://askubuntu.com/questions/38162/what-is-a-terminal-and-how-do-i-open-and-use-it – Mateo Jul 04 '14 at 23:20

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Easy answer: Load google Chrome - adobe stopped supporting Flash Player for Linux about a year ago.

Charles Green
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I faced the same problem in my new Linux Mint and got an easy solution.

Open Terminal and type in :

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

If you are not comfortable with terminals follow this GUI tutorial by Ubuntu :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash

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  • Thank you for the answer but what is a TERMINAL ? Is that like the place I go to wait for an airplane? Seriously I have no idea what you're talking about :) – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 00:34
  • Okay, I went to the wiki.ubuntu.com area and unfortunately that is not functional. It would not complete that vital step so I could choose the plug in. Took about a half hour too. This is incredibly frustrating. – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 00:54
  • Okay, since the ubuntu tutorial didn't function can someone possibly tell me how to Open a Terminal? If it's not hugely complicated I'd like to do that. – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 01:01
  • Okay! I figured out how to get there via a Terminal. So I put the "pepperflashplugin-nonfree" term in there and then had to type my password and now rows of weird numbers went all up and down my screen. I have no idea what this means. Does this mean YouTube works now. I'll be surprised!! – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 01:20
  • Okay, just as I thought! I went onto the Internet tried to play a video and the window still came up and said that I DON'T have an suitable plug in! So what did I get this Pepper plug in for then ? – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 01:23
  • OH THIS IS NICE. MY MUSIC DOESN'T PLAY RIGHT EITHER. I am totally done with this system. Good bye! – Lisa7777 Jul 05 '14 at 02:45
  • You sound to me really_crazy. You're not made for linux operating systems switch back to windows. It's made specially for you. :D – coolboyssahil Jul 06 '14 at 03:26
  • When I run this in the terminal:sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install, I get this output:

    2014-07-26 01:56:02 (2,47 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.BqGj40yYUE/google-chrome-stable_36.0.1985.125-1_amd64.deb’ saved [48386260/48386260]

    and after restarting Chromium, Flash is still not detected. I really need help! Can someone help me? Should I install that .deb file found in the /tmp directory?

     – silviubogan Jul 25 '14 at 23:18
  • Running sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status prints the following lines in the terminal: 
    Flash Player version available on upstream site: 14.0.0.145``` But I still don't have Flash in Chromium.
    – silviubogan Jul 25 '14 at 23:24
  • And it is very strange that I have this entry in chrome://plugins : http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab180/silviubogan/Screenshotfrom2014-07-26022752.png – silviubogan Jul 25 '14 at 23:37
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Installing Flash Player

Open terminal by 'CTRL+ALT+T'
close firefox
copy & past this 'line by line'

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer

'suggestions : 1 - try to learn ubuntu desktop there's so many video tutorials,2 - learn the command line too'
you can download & watch youtube videos by installing youtube-dl 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

usage in terminal

youtube-dl "youtube video link or the video id"

you can also download a youtube video playlist 

youtube-dl -cit "the youtube playlist link"

more info 

youtube-dl --help

it gonna auto download in the /home folder
you can download them in Download dir by getting into the Download dir

cd Download

then the 

youtube-dl -command "video link"
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