Forgoing The Commonplace, Hello Ubuntu!

Thanks for Ubuntu Forums for coming through with another problem solver.  At first I tried the standard practive of trying to update with reinstallation of the nswrapper to no avail.  Then I tried the obvious clicking on the ‘Install Plugin’ route on flash portions of webpages, to no avail.

Finally I used Synaptic and installed “swfdec” via the GUI.  Don’t forget to install the GNOME and Mozilla components. Voila, Flash now works.

The only outstanding issue is that wherever I encounter Flash on a webpage, I have to click it to enable it to play.  I will research further and get to the bottom of enabling Flash to play by default.  The hard part is done, finally I can make the move from Windows Vista to Ubuntu.  Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux!

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