[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:49:33AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from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:~$

Try:
apt-get update;apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Of course since I believe Adobe stopped making flash for linux there
may be no updates and it may be gone.

On debian I do this:

lennartsorensen:~# update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system  : 11.2.202.418
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.425
flash-mozilla.so - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50
Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'.
lennartsorensen:~# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
...
<downloading>
...
lennartsorensen:~# update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system  : 11.2.202.425
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.425
flash-mozilla.so - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50
Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'.

So I guess there is an update available.

-- 
Len Sorensen