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              <div>The problem is that you´re using a very old version
                of Flash. In fact, you´re using very old version of
                everything, as far as I can see.<br>
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              <div>Ubuntu 12.10 - means you´re using Ubuntu from October
                2012.<br>
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              <div>Firefox 29 - the one I´m using is 34.<br>
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              <div>Well, I think you should really think about updating
                your Ubuntu, so you´ll also have all the other softwares
                updated, since you´re using old repositories, with old
                versions of software. <br>
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      OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System
      Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...<br>
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      <small>Failed to download repository information. </small><br>
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      Chris<br>
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    I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site...<br>
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    <pre><code>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade

</code><code><big><big><small>That gave me ...</small></big></big>

chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for chris: 
Ign <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com</a> quantal Release.gpg
Ign <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com</a> quantal-backports Release.gpg                                                                                           

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Ign <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com</a> quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex      
Ign <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://extras.ubuntu.com">http://extras.ubuntu.com</a> quantal/main Translation-en_CA                                
Ign <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://extras.ubuntu.com">http://extras.ubuntu.com</a> quantal/main Translation-en             
Err <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net">http://ppa.launchpad.net</a> quantal/main Sources                    
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Err <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net">http://ppa.launchpad.net</a> quantal/main i386 Packages              
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W: Failed to fetch <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources</a>  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]

W: Failed to fetch <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources</a>  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]

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W: Failed to fetch <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages</a>  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]

W: Failed to fetch <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages</a>  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For upgrade information, please visit:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife">http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife</a>

Err Upgrade tool signature                                                                                                                                                                                          
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]                                                                                                                                                                              
Err Upgrade tool                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80]                                                                                                                                                                              
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                                                           
WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. 
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ 

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