[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

2014-12-19 2:49 GMT-03:00 Chris Aitken <chris at chrisaitken.net>:
>
>  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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on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 Aitke
>

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.

Ubuntu 12.10 - means you´re using Ubuntu from October 2012.
Firefox 29 - the one I´m using is 34.

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.
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