flvI am someone who really appreciates using open source and admire the philosophy behind it. However, sometimes, I must say it’s a not a viable solution. Take for example, the fact that when I installed Ubuntu on my machine, I downloaded Gnash as a player for flash related media and I was feeling proud that I was not using the proprietary Adobe’s Flash player.

However, it was a short lived journey which ended with in two days. Main reasons, it did not seem to work properly with any of flash media, including wordpress, and Google analytics. And I struggled a little to get it work but in vain. So I decided to give it a break and go back to Adobe flash player.

Once I installed Adobe flash I thought it would work out of the box and replace Gnash but that never happened. Flash would not work until I removed Gnash. I followed the steps below to remove Gnash and install Flash Player 10.

Remove Gnash Player

Open a terminal window and type the following command:

sudo apt-get remove --purge gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash libgnash0

Installing Adobe Flash Plugin

Again in a terminal window type the following to install Adobe Flash Player

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Make sure that you restart your browser after this. And you should be back on tracking watching your wonderful videos on youtube.