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March 19, 2006

Firefox flash plugin on ubuntu linux displays no text

Filed under: Side Notes, ubuntu — admin @ 7:14 pm

I’ve installed firefox flash plugin on ubuntu as firefox asked me to install. But I found out that text is no displayed. After some hours and google searches i found out that the problem is gsfonts-x11 package which was not installed on my ubuntu distributon. As I did

sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11

The text suddenly appeared in the flash movies displayed by firefox web browser.

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4 Comments »

  1. Great tip! I remember this problem from before, but when I reinstalled my OS I completely forgot!

    Comment by Thomas — August 17, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

  2. hi,
    great tip, i followed your step…thumbs up!

    Comment by nhm tanveer hossain khan (hasan) — October 23, 2006 @ 6:44 pm

  3. Thanks so much for this tip. But please tell me how one would know that this was a necessary prerequisite to get Flash to display text in the browser?

    Comment by Dominic — November 2, 2006 @ 12:03 pm

  4. Dominic> Yes there are plenty of things on Linux OS you have to discover again and again. You can never know what you will have to discover to fix one or another bug.

    Comment by aurimas.norkevicius — November 2, 2006 @ 1:44 pm

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