Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

sorry my bad was supposed to edit that out, if you look below that the
correct command was typed in (second time) ;¬)

Pete


On 28 August 2013 17:34, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 28 August 2013 17:28, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Please don't top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread.
> Also it makes it would make it easier to see that you misread my
> suggestion, which was, copying from my post below:
> >> > sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
>
> > [sudo] password for steve:
> > E: Invalid operation reinstall
>
> That is because you typed the wrong command.  See above
>
> Colin
>
> > 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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