It’s an old post, but very effective and still useful.

Basically, enable the universe repository from within Ubuntu(refer to forums if you need help with this).

Open terminal.

Run the below:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

This should allow you to install that package.  At the end of this, it looks like it clears the font cache for you, it does not, or doesn’t do this correctly – so, you must run the below:

sudo fc-cache -fv

And your done!  Yay – pretty fonts!

If it doesn’t make sense, or you have issues pulling this also refer to the link I’ve provided above.  There are many blogs, within that thread, that will provide you with more data on how to go about doing this.

Peace.

So, hopefully this helps in the adoption of using Flock/Flash.  Quite a quick fix as well.

Peace.

Update:

Since a lot of traffic seems to come looking for flash fixes for ubuntu, I figure I should expand on this entry some.  The file you are looking for is typically called libflashplayer.so and it isn’t always in the above location.  It can also be found in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/ as well.

Another option you have, if you used apt-get to install the adobe-flashplugin package, you will find this same libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin and can copy this file over to flock/plugins/ directory as well.

 Further questions/help feel free to reply here or email me, oz@inverseflux.com.

Peace