[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

Chris Aitken chris at chrisaitken.net
Fri Dec 19 05:49:33 UTC 2014


Hi,

I haven't posted here for years. I guess Ubuntu has been working well 
for me, so I haven't had the need.

I can't play videos on the Internet. I get an error that ...

"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on 
youtube.com."

I get similar errors (that Adobe Flash needs updating) from other sites 
- fo instance trying to play videos Posted on facebook.

My Firefox is 29.0 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.

I tried to install in this way ...

chris at 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 at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C
chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$

I thought re-installing Firefox might bring with it updates, but it 
seems I already have the latest version ...

chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get install 
firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firefox is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   linux-headers-3.5.0-17 linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic suckless-tools
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
chris at owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$

I tried the gui Synaptic Package Manager, which offered the hope that ...

flashplugin-installer (version 11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1) will be 
re-installed

No such luck ...

W: Failed to fetch 
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.359ubuntu0.12.10.1_i386.deb
   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]

Also, I tried Epiphany, to see if the problem is system-wide or 
browser-specific. I got similar errors trying to play videos.

Sigh.

Any ideas?

I'm off to be soon, but I'll stay up for a little while, in case anyone 
is online.

Chris Aitken














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