<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the quick reply, but that dont work!!<br></div><div>Terminal output from reinstall pasted below......<br><br>steve@steve-desktop-3:~$ sudo apt-get reinstall flashplugin-installer<br>[sudo] password for steve: <br>
E: Invalid operation reinstall<br>steve@steve-desktop-3:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:<br> gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 libtimezonemap1<br> gir1.2-xkl-1.0<br>Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.<br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 0 B/6,932 B of archives.<br>After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.<br>Preconfiguring packages ...<br>(Reading database ... 184122 files and directories currently installed.)<br>Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...<br>
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...<br>Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...<br>flashplugin-installer: downloading <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.297.orig.tar.gz">http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.297.orig.tar.gz</a><br>
Installing from local file /tmp/tmpkl68JH.gz<br>Flash Plugin installed.<br>Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...<br>steve@steve-desktop-3:~$ <br><br><br></div><div>output from command suggested below:<br>
<br>steve@steve-desktop-3:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer<br>flashplugin-installer:<br> Installed: 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1<br> Candidate: 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1<br> Version table:<br> *** 11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1 0<br>
500 <a href="http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/">http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/</a> precise-updates/multiverse i386 Packages<br> 500 <a href="http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/">http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/</a> precise-security/multiverse i386 Packages<br>
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status<br> 11.2.202.233ubuntu2 0<br> 500 <a href="http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/">http://ubuntu.positive-internet.com/ubuntu/</a> precise/multiverse i386 Packages<br>steve@steve-desktop-3:~$ <br>
<br></div><div>Thanks again, this is driving me spare......Such an easy thing not working, can be more frustrating than the harder things not going right.<br><br><br></div><div>Pete Smout<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2013 17:13, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com" target="_blank">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 28 August 2013 17:10, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 28 August 2013 17:01, Peter Smout <<a href="mailto:smoutpete@gmail.com">smoutpete@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> This is sort of a follow on from 'probally a stupid question but...' but<br>
>> warrants a new thread.<br>
>><br>
>> A friend of mine (following my advice) has just installed Lubuntu 12.04<br>
>> LTS on an old pc to extend the life....<br>
>> Having personally made the 'error' of installing Adobe flash from their<br>
>> website, I am trying to resolve this correctly by installing<br>
>> lubuntu-restricted-extras from the multiverse repo with no luck at all,<br>
>> firefox does not know it is installed, even though synaptic says it is?<br>
><br>
> Is flashplugin-installer installed? Try<br>
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer<br>
> and see if it does anything. Flashplugin-installer is the package<br>
> that should install flash and set it up.<br>
><br>
> If it is already installed then possibly<br>
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer<br>
> It should download flash and ask you to OK the license.<br>
<br>
</div>If still not working then what does<br>
apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer<br>
show?<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Colin<br>
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