Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

Thanks for the quick reply, but that dont work!!
Terminal output from reinstall pasted below......

steve at steve-desktop-3:~$ sudo apt-get reinstall flashplugin-installer
[sudo] password for steve:
E: Invalid operation reinstall
steve at steve-desktop-3:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall
flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 libtimezonemap1
  gir1.2-xkl-1.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6,932 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 184122 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1
(using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.297.orig.tar.gz
Installing from local file /tmp/tmpkl68JH.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
steve at steve-desktop-3:~$


output from command suggested below:

steve at steve-desktop-3:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Candidate: 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/precise-updates/multiverse
i386 Packages
        500 http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/precise-security/multiverse
i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     11.2.202.233ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse
i386 Packages
steve at steve-desktop-3:~$

Thanks again, this is driving me spare......Such an easy thing not working,
can be more frustrating than the harder things not going right.


Pete Smout


On 28 August 2013 17:13, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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