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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on youtube.com."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/flas... 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
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"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on youtube.com."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/flas... 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.
On Dec 19, 2014 8:56 AM, "Marcelo Cavalcante" <kalibslack@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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.
2014-12-19 11:05 GMT-03:00 Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne@gmail.com>: > > > On Dec 19, 2014 8:56 AM, "Marcelo Cavalcante" <kalibslack@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > 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. > > > > --- > GTALUG Talk Mailing List - talk@gtalug.org > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > 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).
On 12/19/2014 09:08 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
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.
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.
I get the same thing in openSUSE 13.1, but, IIRC, it's possible to allow the video to run.
I use kubuntu and had the same problem but the following solved the problem: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/04/install-adobe-flash-in-ubuntu-14... Incidentally, my kubuntu 14.04 is unstable and I will chuck it as soon as I get debian LXQt. /gary On 14-12-19 08:56 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
2014-12-19 2:49 GMT-03:00 Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto: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 <http://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/flas... 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.
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On 14-12-19 08:56 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
2014-12-19 2:49 GMT-03:00 Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto: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 <http://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
<snip>
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.
OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ... Failed to download repository information. Chris
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<snip>
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.
OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...
Failed to download repository information.
Chris
I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site... |sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade ||That gave me ... chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for chris: Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg [...] Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA [...] Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] [...] Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] [...] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binar... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife Err Upgrade tool signature 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Err Upgrade tool 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ |
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I had this exact issue a short while ago. The issue is that Ubuntu no longer has any of the packages for 12.10 live so apt fails to find the files it needs to do a dist. upgrade. I used the following post to get around this issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from... There's more information here too: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/ On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
<snip>
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.
OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...
Failed to download repository information.
Chris
I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site...
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade That gave me ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for chris: Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg
[...]
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA
[...]
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binar... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit:http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Err Upgrade tool signature 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Err Upgrade tool 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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On 14-12-20 02:13 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
I had this exact issue a short while ago. The issue is that Ubuntu no longer has any of the packages for 12.10 live so apt fails to find the files it needs to do a dist. upgrade. I used the following post to get around this issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from...
I tried all those steps. |sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list ||sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ||sudo apt-get update ||sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade| The last step gave me ... chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife Err Upgrade tool signature 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80] Err Upgrade tool 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80] Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
There's more information here too: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
<snip>
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.
OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...
Failed to download repository information.
Chris
I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site...
|sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade
||That gave me ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for chris: Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg
[...]
Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ignhttp://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ignhttp://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Errhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Errhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ignhttp://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA
[...]
Ignhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Translation-en Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ignhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ignhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Errhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
Errhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Errhttp://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetchhttp://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binar... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Err Upgrade tool signature 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Err Upgrade tool 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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Take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/#Requirements . Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file? The IP that apt is looking at definitely doesn't have 12.10 or 13.04: http://91.189.92.201/ubuntu/dists/ When I used that post I manually made the change and didn't use sed so I can't confirm that that command actually made the proper changes needed. If you still have 12.10 then your /etc/apt/sources.list file should be something like the following: deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
On 14-12-20 02:13 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
I had this exact issue a short while ago. The issue is that Ubuntu no longer has any of the packages for 12.10 live so apt fails to find the files it needs to do a dist. upgrade. I used the following post to get around this issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from...
I tried all those steps.
sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.listsudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade
The last step gave me ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Err Upgrade tool signature
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]
Err Upgrade tool ; 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.201 80]
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) ; WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
There's more information here too: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
<snip>
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.
OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > Admin > Software Updater gave me ...
Failed to download repository information.
Chris
I found some easy commands at an Ubuntu site...
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo do-release-upgrade That gave me ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for chris: Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg
[...]
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA
[...]
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Err http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Err http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
[...]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/universe/binary-... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/multiverse/binar... 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit:http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Err Upgrade tool signature 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Err Upgrade tool 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.15 80] Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s) WARNING:root:file 'raring.tar.gz.gpg' missing Failed to fetch Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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On 14-12-21 04:56 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/#Requirements . Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_ - Release i386 (20111012)]/ oneiric main restricted # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal_ - Release i386 (20121017.2)]/ quantal main restricted # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party ## developers who want to ship their latest software. deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party ## developers who want to ship their latest software. deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn <snip>
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's no ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you. Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade On 14-12-21 04:56 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/#Requirements . Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_ - Release i386 (20111012)]/ oneiric main restricted # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.10 _Quantal Quetzal_ - Release i386 (20121017.2)]/ quantal main restricted # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security main restricted deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security universe deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-security multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party ## developers who want to ship their latest software. deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party ## developers who want to ship their latest software. deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic unicorn <snip> --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's noca.old-releases.ubuntu.com <http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com> domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
<snip> Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix? Does the upgrade start at reboot? Chris chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for chris: Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release.gpg Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg [933 B] Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release.gpg [933 B] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release.gpg Get:3 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal Release [49.6 kB] Get:4 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release [49.6 kB] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release Get:5 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main i386 Packages [1,136 kB] Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en Get:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted i386 Packages [8,387 B] Get:7 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe i386 Packages [5,285 kB] Get:8 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse i386 Packages [133 kB] Get:9 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA [10.4 kB] Get:10 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en [660 kB] Get:11 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-en [100 kB] Get:12 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-en [2,575 B] Get:13 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-en_CA [663 B] Get:14 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-en [3,646 kB] Get:15 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main i386 Packages [338 kB] Get:16 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted i386 Packages [4,841 B] Get:17 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe i386 Packages [221 kB] Get:18 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [12.3 kB] Get:19 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Translation-en [172 kB] Get:20 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse Translation-en [6,931 B] Get:21 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted Translation-en [1,477 B] Get:22 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe Translation-en [115 kB] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-en Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-en_CA Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
This email failed (too big), so I'll send it in two parts... Part 1: On 14-12-21 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's noca.old-releases.ubuntu.com <http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com> domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
<snip>
Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?
Does the upgrade start at reboot?
Chris
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for chris: Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release.gpg Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg [933 B] Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release.gpg [933 B] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release.gpg Get:3 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal Release [49.6 kB] Get:4 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release [49.6 kB] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release Get:5 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main i386 Packages [1,136 kB] Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en Get:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted i386 Packages [8,387 B] Get:7 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe i386 Packages [5,285 kB] Get:8 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse i386 Packages [133 kB] Get:9 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en_CA [10.4 kB] Get:10 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en [660 kB] Get:11 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-en [100 kB] Get:12 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-en [2,575 B] Get:13 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-en_CA [663 B] Get:14 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-en [3,646 kB] Get:15 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main i386 Packages [338 kB] Get:16 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted i386 Packages [4,841 B] Get:17 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe i386 Packages [221 kB] Get:18 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [12.3 kB] Get:19 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Translation-en [172 kB]
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Part 2:
Get:20 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse Translation-en [6,931 B] Get:21 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted Translation-en [1,477 B] Get:22 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe Translation-en [115 kB] Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-en Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Translation-en_CA Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-en_CA Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ ^C chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
Tim, While I wait for your response, I at least have a workaround now that a local computer geek suggested. I went to ninite.com, chose linux > chrome > install, and even though it complained about updates failing, it completed the install. Chrome is in Applications > Internet. I clicked on it, it opened, I went to youtube and played a video no problem - no complaints about an old version of Adobe Flash. Should I still do this upgrade, or just use Chrome from now on? Chris
On 14-12-21 11:05 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
Tim,
While I wait for your response, I at least have a workaround now that a local computer geek suggested. I went to ninite.com, chose linux > chrome > install, and even though it complained about updates failing, it completed the install. Chrome is in Applications > Internet. I clicked on it, it opened, I went to youtube and played a video no problem - no complaints about an old version of Adobe Flash. Should I still do this upgrade, or just use Chrome from now on?
Also, I clicked on the red triangle icon on the panel, and the updates started! A lot of them - took over five minutes. I rebooted, and it's still Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal). So, no Ubuntu version upgrade but the updates took. Firefox still asking for Adobe Flash update, but Chrome is playing videos fine. Chris
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You just managed to install whatever updates you had missed before they took the repository offline. You're still way out of date and missing any new security patches that have happened since the "end of life" date. Ubuntu 12.10 probably runs the latest Chrome just fine, but you are still running a fairly old OS that may have security issues.
On 12/22/14 10:02 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
You just managed to install whatever updates you had missed before they took the repository offline. You're still way out of date and missing any new security patches that have happened since the "end of life" date.
Ubuntu 12.10 probably runs the latest Chrome just fine, but you are still running a fairly old OS that may have security issues.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. If I can't get your commands to install the upgrade, I'll take it to the local guru in January. Chris
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:05:52 -0500 Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
Tim,
While I wait for your response, I at least have a workaround now that a local computer geek suggested. I went to ninite.com, chose linux > chrome > install, and even though it complained about updates failing, it completed the install. Chrome is in Applications > Internet. I clicked on it, it opened, I went to youtube and played a video no problem - no complaints about an old version of Adobe Flash. Should I still do this upgrade, or just use Chrome from now on?
Chris
Chris, When I updated my Fedora machine recently, I resisted installing flash. I noticed that most YouTube videos continued to work. Most Facebook videos did not work. Whatever was causing Firefox to lock up also was not working. I have since installed flash to cope with some ski club stuff, and my Firefox has been locking up again. I am not getting Flash's out of date message on my desktop. I have been getting it on my laptop. I have had an interesting problem with Google-chrome. I run a webserver on my desktop and on my laptop. My default URLs are http://desktop/~howard and http://laptop/~howard. I would log into my laptop, and the URL would come up http://desktop/~howard. I would fix this, and when I logged into my desktop, the URL would be http://laptop/~howard. I have an active Google account to which both machines are logged in. I do not like having my personal stuff stored on the cloud. Default URLs are not important, but I am not sure how far this goes. I am back running Firefox most of the time. I use Google-chrome Over on http://www.webpagesthatsuck, Vincent Flanders insists that Flash is dead. Let's help bury it. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@optech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's no ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?
Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s)
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Okay, I think you may be able to just run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and things will work fine. It failed to run that second part because the update failed on some custom PPA's you installed. The dist-upgrade should then disable the PPA's and do the upgrade.
On 14-12-22 09:59 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's noca.old-releases.ubuntu.com <http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com> domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?
Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
Okay, I think you may be able to just run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and things will work fine. It failed to run that second part because the update failed on some custom PPA's you installed. The dist-upgrade should then disable the PPA's and do the upgrade.
This is what I got ... chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libp11-kit-gnome-keyring The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-keyring 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,413 kB of archives. After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [1,369 kB] Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main libp11-kit-gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [44.1 kB] Fetched 1,413 kB in 2s (615 kB/s) (Reading database ... 325948 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-keyring ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11/modules': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11': Directory not empty Selecting previously unselected package libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386. Unpacking libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (from .../libp11-kit-gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ... Setting up libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gnome-keyring (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
On 14-12-22 09:59 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's no ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?
Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
Okay, I think you may be able to just run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and things will work fine. It failed to run that second part because the update failed on some custom PPA's you installed. The dist-upgrade should then disable the PPA's and do the upgrade.
This is what I got ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libp11-kit-gnome-keyring The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-keyring 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,413 kB of archives. After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [1,369 kB] Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main libp11-kit-gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [44.1 kB] Fetched 1,413 kB in 2s (615 kB/s) (Reading database ... 325948 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-keyring ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11/modules': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11': Directory not empty Selecting previously unselected package libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386. Unpacking libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (from .../libp11-kit-gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ... Setting up libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gnome-keyring (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data. Chris
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 14-12-22 09:59 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 14-12-21 09:30 PM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
Right. That was the problem with the sed command. There's noca.old-releases.ubuntu.com <http://ca.old-releases.ubuntu.com> domain. Just replace the whole thing with the three lines I gave you.
Then run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Done. So, is the following good, bad, or a mix?
Fetched 12.0 MB in 23s (504 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily/ubuntu/dists/quan... 404 Not Found
Okay, I think you may be able to just run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and things will work fine. It failed to run that second part because the update failed on some custom PPA's you installed. The dist-upgrade should then disable the PPA's and do the upgrade.
This is what I got ...
chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libp11-kit-gnome-keyring The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-keyring 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,413 kB of archives. After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [1,369 kB] Get:2 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main libp11-kit-gnome-keyring i386 3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1 [44.1 kB] Fetched 1,413 kB in 2s (615 kB/s) (Reading database ... 325948 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-keyring 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-keyring ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11/modules': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/pkcs11': Directory not empty Selecting previously unselected package libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386. Unpacking libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (from .../libp11-kit-gnome-keyring_3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ... Setting up libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Setting up gnome-keyring (3.6.1-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place chris@owner-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions. You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO.
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO.
OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity? Chris
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On 3 January 2015 at 15:04, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
You probably want to download an Ubuntu GNOME image for this. <http://ubuntugnome.org/> -- Scott
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Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop' I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar - --Bob. Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/ http://sn.jonkman.ca/bobjonkman/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO.
OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity? I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop'
OK, I got a tech to install 14.04. So, that's done. Now I want to install mate-desktop. I tried your command, and got ... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mate-desktop is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmate-desktop-2-17 libunique-1.0-0 linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic mate-desktop-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded. After this operation, 97.3 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 225461 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 97.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package mate-desktop. (Reading database ... 225454 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mate-desktop_1.6.2-1_i386.deb ... Unpacking mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ When I rebooted, there was no offer to choose mate. Chris
I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras
Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar
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On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure. Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO. OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From the Ubuntu login screen, the desktop selector is the circle in the top-right corner of the login dialogue box. Click on the circle, then select your preferred desktop environment. Some desktops put a logo in there (the Ubuntu logo for Unity, the bigfoot logo for Gnome), but the MATE desktop just has a blank circle. - --Bob. On 14/01/15 08:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity? I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from
On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote: the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop'
OK, I got a tech to install 14.04. So, that's done. Now I want to install mate-desktop. I tried your command, and got ...
chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mate-desktop is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmate-desktop-2-17 libunique-1.0-0 linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic mate-desktop-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded. After this operation, 97.3 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 225461 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 97.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package mate-desktop. (Reading database ... 225454 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mate-desktop_1.6.2-1_i386.deb ... Unpacking mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... chris@Chris-Pc:~$
When I rebooted, there was no offer to choose mate.
Chris
I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras
Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar
--Bob.
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On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
If you don't have too much on that computer, you should probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure. Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO. OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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- From the Ubuntu login screen, the desktop selector is the circle in the top-right corner of the login dialogue box. Click on the circle, then select your preferred desktop environment. Some desktops put a logo in there (the Ubuntu logo for Unity, the bigfoot logo for Gnome), but the MATE desktop just has a blank circle.
No circle in top right corner. From left-to-right: A circle with a man inside (five-pointed asterisk where one spoke is a circle), up/down arrow logo, EN, volume icon, time, power logo (with spokes).
- --Bob.
On 14/01/15 08:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity? I use the MATE interface, a Gnome2 fork. You can install it from Ubuntu 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr" repositories now: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/mate-desktop Install it from
On 15-01-03 03:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote: the commandline with 'apt-get install mate-desktop'
OK, I got a tech to install 14.04. So, that's done. Now I want to install mate-desktop. I tried your command, and got ...
chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mate-desktop is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmate-desktop-2-17 libunique-1.0-0 linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic mate-desktop-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded. After this operation, 97.3 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 225461 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: mate-desktop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 97.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package mate-desktop. (Reading database ... 225454 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mate-desktop_1.6.2-1_i386.deb ... Unpacking mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up mate-desktop (1.6.2-1) ... chris@Chris-Pc:~$ When I rebooted, there was no offer to choose mate. Chris
I'd also install the packages 'mate-desktop-environment' and 'mate-desktop-environment-extras', but they seem to be available only in 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn": http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mate-desktop-environment-extras
Instead of upgrading from 14.04LTS to 14.10 to get the '-environment-extras' you may want to add the MATE repositories instead. That'll let you install the '-environment-extras' package, and probably provides you with a more current MATE core as well. There's good instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu_1404_lts_trusty_thar
--Bob.
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On 03/01/15 03:04 PM, Chris Aitken wrote:
On 15-01-02 11:21 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net <mailto:chris@chrisaitken.net>> wrote:
On 15-01-02 09:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote: > If you don't have too much on that computer, you should > probably just copy of your personal stuff and reformat it > with the 14.04 version. Nuke it from orbit... it's the > only way to be sure. Man, it's been so long. I don't expect you to give me a step-by-step, but are the broad strokes that I would make a CD or DVD on another PC, then boot from that to do the fresh installation? Is there a command I can run, then at boot the installation would begin? I assumed I was going to lose everything anyway - I'm good about backing up data.
Easiest way is to download the 14.04 ISO image and then use the "Startup Disk Creator" to create a bootable USB flash drive. You then boot from the USB drive and follow the instructions.
You should have everything you need on that older Ubuntu machine already, you just need to download the disk ISO. OK - I'm starting in on this. Will there be any possibility of choosing the old GNOME interface, so I don't end up with Unity?
Chris
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| From: Chris Aitken <chris@chrisaitken.net> | OK. I'm going to upgrade. Is there an easy GUI method? System Tools > | Admin > Software Updater gave me ... Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 and probably 16.04 are Long Term Support versions of Ubuntu. They promise support for some years. The other Ubuntus are supported for about a year, if I remember correctly. Given that you kept your 12.10 past the end of support, I suggest you move to 14.04. Perhaps you will be done with your computer by the time 14.04 LTS expires.
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... 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/flas... 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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2014-12-19 12:01 GMT-03:00 Alex Volkov <avolkov@gmail.com>:
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... 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/flas... 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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I really don´t suggest to keep using this outdated version of Flash pressing the "Allow" button. Flash player is known to have many many bugs in it´s stable and current versions.. so, imagine an outdated version. ;]
Running "aptitude reinstall flashplayer-installer" installs an up-to-date version from adobe site, and not from outdated Ubuntu 12.10 repository. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante <kalibslack@gmail.com> wrote:
2014-12-19 12:01 GMT-03:00 Alex Volkov <avolkov@gmail.com>:
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... 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/flas... 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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I really don´t suggest to keep using this outdated version of Flash pressing the "Allow" button. Flash player is known to have many many bugs in it´s stable and current versions.. so, imagine an outdated version. ;]
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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@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:~$
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
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
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
It seems that Firefox can only use the latest 11.2 version because it's the latest available for Linux and no new versions will be made available. However, in Chrome I have 16.0.0.235 installed because it comes "built in". So, if Flash is important to you, you may want to switch to using Chrome (I'm not sure if Chromium also has this feature, but that may also be a possibility).
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Tim Tisdall wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
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
It seems that Firefox can only use the latest 11.2 version because it's the latest available for Linux and no new versions will be made available. However, in Chrome I have 16.0.0.235 installed because it comes "built in". So, if Flash is important to you, you may want to switch to using Chrome (I'm not sure if Chromium also has this feature, but that may also be a possibility).
There is another option: Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree Version: 1.8 Installed-Size: 74 Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14), libnspr4, libnss3, libpango-1.0-0 | libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils, ca-certificates Suggests: chromium, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, hal Conflicts: chromium (<< 37.0.2062.120-4), libflash-mozplugin Description-en: Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin This package will download Chrome from Google, and unpack it to make the included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium. The end user license agreement is available at Google. Description-md5: 308421c13180fc4cf682be0755dca66d Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer Tag: uitoolkit::gtk Section: contrib/web Priority: optional Filename: pool/contrib/p/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/pepperflashplugin-nonfree_1.8_amd64.deb Size: 10790 MD5sum: d2eeda61df85c2ac3c385fc9673360eb SHA1: 2020464a97777af44f52104293724c8a635072ea SHA256: 890af22fe8c272fd272dd2dd28d5623038d8e86a7ca528a8f5e238b93ddc0fb1 -- Len Sorensen
On Friday, December 19 2014, Chris Aitken wrote:
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."
[First post, hey guys!] Hi Chris, Maybe you know that already, but it is also possible to use youtube-dl, a Free Software program, to download the video you want from the website. Despite its name, it works with many other websites, not only youtube. And of course, after you start using it and notice that you do not need a program that disrespects your freedom anymore, you can uninstall flash from your system :-). Cheers, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 0x65FC5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/
On 19/12/14 01:12 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
On Friday, December 19 2014, Chris Aitken wrote:
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."
[First post, hey guys!]
Hi Chris,
Maybe you know that already, but it is also possible to use youtube-dl, a Free Software program, to download the video you want from the website. Despite its name, it works with many other websites, not only youtube. And of course, after you start using it and notice that you do not need a program that disrespects your freedom anymore, you can uninstall flash from your system :-).
Cheers,
You definitely don't need Adobe's proprietary Flash to watch videos on YouTube anymore. I ditched Flash on my laptops years ago. A few better options for YouTube videos: - I second youtube-dl! It's awesome, highly recommend it. I guess an added benefit is less tracking than viewing on youtube.com in your browser. - Also, with YouTube, you can go to youtube.com/html5 to request the HTML5 player (it may not be enabled by default for Firefox, but that page will set a cookie to force it where available/compatible) - I do have Gnash installed, which works on YouTube where the HTML5 player isn't available, or where youtube-dl fails (e.g. VEVO channels). I think the packages for Ubuntu/Debian would be gnash and browser-plugin-gnash, but it's been a while since I installed it...
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 01:42:01PM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
On 19/12/14 01:12 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
On Friday, December 19 2014, Chris Aitken wrote:
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."
[First post, hey guys!]
Hi Chris,
Maybe you know that already, but it is also possible to use youtube-dl, a Free Software program, to download the video you want from the website. Despite its name, it works with many other websites, not only youtube. And of course, after you start using it and notice that you do not need a program that disrespects your freedom anymore, you can uninstall flash from your system :-).
Cheers,
You definitely don't need Adobe's proprietary Flash to watch videos on YouTube anymore. I ditched Flash on my laptops years ago.
A few better options for YouTube videos:
- I second youtube-dl! It's awesome, highly recommend it. I guess an added benefit is less tracking than viewing on youtube.com in your browser.
livestreamer is another general purpose option. Also, mpv can use libquvi to stream directly from YouTube, so I expect other media players can do the same. -- Tom Low-Shang
Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
[First post, hey guys!]
Welcome!
Maybe you know that already, but it is also possible to use youtube-dl, a Free Software program, to download the video you want from the website. Despite its name, it works with many other websites, not only youtube. And of course, after you start using it and notice that you do not need a program that disrespects your freedom anymore, you can uninstall flash from your system :-).
Note that youtube-dl is updated regularly (apparently Youtube is a moving target); if you're running Debian Stable you get a version that's too old to be of use. On my Gentoo box I find there's a new youtube-dl more often than not when I update. Best to run close to the bleeding edge on this package. Meanwhile, I don't install flash at all on boxes I'd like to keep unpwned. As a bonus, there aren't as many annoyingly animated ads. -- Anthony de Boer
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