[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"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on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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