Adobe Flash Player 10, Ubuntu 9.04, & Firefox 3.5

Getting Adobe Flash Player 10 to function has been causing problems for
a lot of people on a lot of systems.

Problems varied. Some web sites worked, some yielded a blank space,
others seemed to yield a non page without navigation or movement.
Sometimes there was what looks like a non functional window with a video
control bar, a caution symbol and a spinning object.

There are also those who keep having to reinstall it even though is on
the programs list in add/remove programs. After the fresh install
everything works fine until a restart, and I have to go through the
whole process again.

The cryptic solution to all of these problems is, deinstall flash,
reinstall, and restart.

Using Ubuntu 9.04, Firefox 3.5, and Flash Player 10, there are at least
three ways I thought of to attempt to accomplish that goal.

As a moderate computer user, I did not figure out how to do it from the
Terminal.

The next unsuccessful attempt involved the following strategy. Since I
had used Add/Remove from the Applications Tool bar drop down menu, I
looked for Flash applications using the search function in that window.
I selected anything connected to Adobe Flash Player of any version,
Swfdec Flash Player, Macromedia Flash plugin, and Gnash SWF Viewer, and
removed them. Then I used the same menu to install Adobe Flash Plugin
10. Problems were not solved.

The successful strategy involved selecting the drop down menu from the
tool bar, System-Administration-Synaptic Package Manager. Then I did a
quick search of anything relating to Flash. I selected anything relating
to Adobe Flash Player of any version, Swfdec Flash Player, Macromedia
Flash plugin, and Gnash SWF Viewer, and removed them.

Just for good measure, I restarted my computer before using the Synaptic
Package to do a quick search for Adobe Flash Player 10. At the top of
the list was flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 Adobe Flash Player
plugin installer. I selected that choice and let Synaptic Package
Manager do its job.

For me, there was something the Synaptic Package manager found and
removed that allowed a successful install of Flash Player 10.