Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Colin Law]

On 28 August 2013 17:10, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If still not working then what does
apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
show?

Colin