[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

[Thomas Milne]

On Dec 19, 2014 8:56 AM, "Marcelo Cavalcante" <kalibslack at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2014-12-19 2:49 GMT-03:00 Chris Aitken <chris at chrisaitken.net>:
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>> 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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on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 ...
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>> 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 ...
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>> 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.
>
>
It seems to me that Flash is outdated, period. That is to say it is no
longer necessary. All of this is done natively in the browser with HTML 5
no?

Anyhow ya a full update should solve everything.
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