I can view the preferences but the selection boxes are all locked, as well as the Cancel and OK buttons. The only option is to close it. Have tried uninstall/re-install acroread but situation persists. Is there some system settings that I need to change to unlock preferences? Answer It seems it can be done, if … Read more
My Adobe Flash plugin has stopped working on Ubuntu 12.04. I cannot see any videos. When I try to install it again, the following things appear on my terminal: root@ubuntu:/home/salty# sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package adobe-flashplugin is not available, but is referred to by … Read more
I want to install adobe acrobat reader plugin in ubuntu 12.10. I tried enabling medibuntu and searched for mozilla-acroread and acroread-plugins, but the search yielded no results. I have adobe acrobat reader installed using the debian package. One more method I tried is to open Adobe Acrobat Reader Edit -> Preferences -> Internet and then … Read more
There are several journal websites (typically Taylor and Francis) that require that all PDF files submitted to it for reviewing should be Adobe PDFs. The submission engine will not accept a PDF generated by LaTeX or OpenOffice. To do this conversion, one has to actually boot into Windows, open the PDF file with Adobe Acrobat … Read more
Firefox shows that I’ve got Gnash installed, but in Synaptic I have the most recent Adobe Flashplayer. I’ve been having trouble with Flash content not working, and I’d like to try switching to the Adobe player. I can’t figure out how to do that, though. Answer First make sure you have the flashplugin-installer package installed. … Read more
What are the latest news with Adobe AIR? Is someone planing to develop a support for AIR. My business is using Adobe AIR for digital signage software on PC. I prefer Linux but without support or any other solution for AIR it means I need to buy Windows licenses. 🙁 Answer Adobe dropped Linux support … Read more
I’ve been having problems with updating Adobe Flash Player. I downloaded the tar.gz but to be honest I’m completely lost from there. Answer You should just install the latest version from the Ubuntu repositories. It is a lot easier and normally they keep this one up-to-date with new Linux Flash releases. To install it run … Read more
I thought Linux wasn’t getting any new updates from Adobe? but i started to get this message a few days ago on youtube and other flash sites: When trying to install the update I get to a page which only offers YUM, .tar.gz, and .rpm and none .deb Could someone guide me trough installing this? … Read more
Has anyone got Lightroom 3 working under wine? As with most posts out there, I have successfully completed the install, but where the photos should be (in grid view, loupe view or edit view) there are only gray squares. I have run winetricks vcrun6 colorprofile corefonts vista gdiplus already, no change. Answer This isn’t really … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I install Adobe Flash player? (20 answers) Get latest Flash player on Ubuntu (3 answers) Closed 5 years ago. I go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and click on the “APT for Ubuntu 13.10+” but i get a message saying “Unknown channel ‘yakkety partner’” The channel ‘yakkety partner’ is not … Read more
