Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Colin Law]

On 28 August 2013 17:01, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is sort of a follow on from 'probally a stupid question but...' but
> warrants a new thread.
>
> A friend of mine (following my advice) has just installed Lubuntu 12.04
> LTS on an old pc to extend the life....
> Having personally made the 'error' of installing Adobe flash from their
> website, I am trying to resolve this correctly by installing
> lubuntu-restricted-extras from the multiverse repo with no luck at all,
> firefox does not know it is installed, even though synaptic says it is?

Is flashplugin-installer installed?  Try
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
and see if it does anything.  Flashplugin-installer is the package
that should install flash and set it up.

If it is already installed then possibly
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
It should download flash and ask you to OK the license.

Colin