[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

2014-12-19 11:05 GMT-03:00 Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne at gmail.com>:
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> On Dec 19, 2014 8:56 AM, "Marcelo Cavalcante" <kalibslack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running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.
> >
> >
> 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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> Sadly no. Not everything is working over HTML5. But I hope to see this
happening very soon. It would be a dream. I hate flash.

Flash is always killing our machines (CPU).
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