2014-12-19 2:49 GMT-03:00 Chris Aitken <chris@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"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on youtube.com."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@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 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.