Flash on the XO - Viewing YouTube, Mathcasts and other Flash objects

Problem: Cannot get YouTube videos or Screencasts/Mathcasts to play.

Details: After upgrading to Release 8.2.0, nothing with Flash worked.

1. I downloaded/installed latest firmware, latest updates of software applications and openJDK (Java) -see: How2

After this nothing with Flash worked - I would get a box that said Flash[Click to play][X], but when I rolled over that it disappeared and if I tried to click on the "empty space" where it had been, nothing happened. After much, much experimentation, frustration, etc. I did the following and now Flash apps work.

2. I uninstalled the default Flash player Gnash Details

Opened Terminal Activity

At prompt, typed su -l and Hit Enter (that's a small L, not a 1).

At bash prompt, typed sudo yum remove gnash -y and hit Enter.

Waited.

At bash prompt, typed exit and hit Enter.

Restarted XO.

3. I then installed the Adobe Flash player Details

Applied directions from this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Browse_Activity

Opened Terminal Activity

At prompt, typed su -l and Hit Enter (that's a small L, not a 1 and it takes me to "root" directory in the root).

At bash prompt, typed

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm and hit Enter.

Waited.

At bash prompt, typed rpm -i flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm and hit Enter.

Waited.

At bash prompt, typed exit and hit Enter.

Restarted XO.

Note: I think I should be able to delete the file flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm to save space, but I am not sure ...

4. Optional: I then got rid of the Flash [Click to play][X] prompt. Details

I wanted my flash apps to play directly, not to have to click again.

That is, I don't want to see:

Applied directions from this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Click_to_Play

Opened Terminal Activity

At prompt, typed su and Hit Enter .

At bash prompt, typed cd \home\olpc\Activities/Browse.activity and hit Enter.

At bash prompt, typed mkdir bak and hit Enter (creates bak directory).

At bash prompt, typed mv agent-stylesheet.css bak and hit Enter (moves file to bak).

At bash prompt, typed mv clickToView.xml bak and hit Enter (moves file to bak).

Note: You can see this is a reversible process, just move the files back into the Browse.activity directory.

5. Optional: I then tested at Adobe Flash. Details

Applied directions from this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Browse_Activity - Step 4.

Opened Browse Activity

Opened URL: http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15507

Got page that correctly ran the flash test and gave me the version (finally!!)

Mathcasts on on my pages now work directly. Sample pages

Linear Systems 2x2 - Substitution See image

What is a mathcast?

Scratch applets on the Scratch Site say "You need Java to run this project", but there is a place to click: “I am sure I have the plugin, show me the project”. Click on this and the project loads.