Hey Marcello,

I had the same problem with a debian system.

You are using an outdated version of flash, you can still watch flash by clicking on 'allow' but you should really upgrade.

The main issue here is that, flash player is not licenced by default and not packaged. The software that installs it on your system is called flashplugin-nonfree, but for whatever reason package maintainers decided not to bump its version number to force everyone to upgrade.

 You need to reinstall flashplugin-nonfree or flashplugin-installer however it is called in ubuntu, by running "aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree" which you did. However, End-of-life of Ubuntu 12.10 was reached on May 16 this year -- http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/05/17/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-end-of-life-reached-on-may-16-2014/
So security repository is no longer active.

This is the point where I, as all other people in the list would recommend you to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu LTS release, however if you want to just fix this problem, keep reading.

Open terminal, type
$sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

enter a password if asked

Comment out all lines that contain security.ubuntu.com.

Then run aptitude updated && aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer.

You should be good to go.

Alex.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:

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"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on youtube.com."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@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@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C
chris@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@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@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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