Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

On 29 August 2013 17:07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 16:59, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin
>> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>
>
> That's the key bit. Well, and some other stuff in /usr/lib. Those are
> the program binaries. You *do* have Flash installed, AFAICS.
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Hi Liam

I have as far as I can tell, the issue now is that Firefox, Chromium,
even Google Chrome do not seem to realize this!!

It does not even appear in the list of addons or plugins in any of the
browsers as disabled, so I cannot enable it!

Shockwave flash does appear in all 3 browsers and when enabled fails
to work on any of them! However shockwave  does not appear as
installed in synaptic or apt-cache policy search (searched gnash, swf,
shockwave, shockwave-flashplugin) I am almost certain that this is the
root of my evils but I am at a loss as to how to correct it.


When did it get so complicated my 13.04 machines (1 clean 13.04
install, 1 upgraded from 11.10 up thru stages, 1 upgraded from 10.04
straight to 12.04 then up to 13.04 via 12,10) all work fine (even if
laptop was done incorrectly, from adobe! in 11.10)


I will sit and go through synaptic installed filter after I have
eaten, and see if I can find anything shockwave related (and nuke it!)
any clues to narrow field of search? by repo or anything?

Thanks Pete Smout