<div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Marcello,<br><br>I had the same problem with a debian system.<br><br>You are using an outdated version of flash, you can still watch flash by clicking on 'allow' but you should really upgrade.<br><br>The main issue here is that, flash player is not licenced by default and not packaged. The software that installs it on your system is called flashplugin-nonfree, but for whatever reason package maintainers decided not to bump its version number to force everyone to upgrade.<br><br> You need to reinstall flashplugin-nonfree or flashplugin-installer however it is called in ubuntu, by running "aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree" which you did. However, End-of-life of Ubuntu 12.10 was reached on May 16 this year -- <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/05/17/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-end-of-life-reached-on-may-16-2014/">http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/05/17/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-end-of-life-reached-on-may-16-2014/</a><br>So security repository is no longer active.<br><br><br></div><div>This is the point where I, as all other people in the list would recommend you to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu LTS release, however if you want to just fix this problem, keep reading.<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>Open terminal, type <br>$sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list<br></div><div>enter a password if asked<br><br><br></div><div>Comment out all lines that contain <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com">security.ubuntu.com</a>.<br><br></div><div>Then run aptitude updated && aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer.<br><br></div><div>You should be good to go.<br><br></div><div>Alex.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Chris Aitken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net" target="_blank">chris@chrisaitken.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi, <br>
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I haven't posted here for years. I guess Ubuntu has been working
well for me, so I haven't had the need.<br>
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I can't play videos on the Internet. I get an error that ...<br>
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<small>"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from
running on <a href="http://youtube.com" target="_blank">youtube.com</a>." </small><br>
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I get similar errors (that Adobe Flash needs updating) from other
sites - fo instance trying to play videos Posted on facebook. <br>
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My Firefox is 29.0 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0<br>
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I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.<br>
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I tried to install in this way ...<br>
<pre>chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get install fashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for chris:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package fashplugin-nonfree
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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I thought re-installing Firefox might bring with it updates, but it
seems I already have the latest version ...<br>
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<small>chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo
apt-get install firefox<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
firefox is already the newest version.<br>
The following packages were automatically installed and are no
longer required:<br>
linux-headers-3.5.0-17 linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic
suckless-tools<br>
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.<br>
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$</small><br>
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I tried the gui Synaptic Package Manager, which offered the hope
that ...<br>
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<small>flashplugin-installer (version 11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1)
will be re-installed</small><br>
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No such luck ...<br>
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<small>W: Failed to fetch
<a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1_i386.deb" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1_i386.deb</a><br>
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]</small><br>
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Also, I tried Epiphany, to see if the problem is system-wide or
browser-specific. I got similar errors trying to play videos. <br>
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Sigh. <br>
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Any ideas?<br>
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I'm off to be soon, but I'll stay up for a little while, in case
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