Problems with Adobe Flash Plugin in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Question

Though the Software center is showing that "Adobe Flash Plugin" is installed in my computer, which is a Compaq Presario c700 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, yet some websites like www.youtube.com is prompting me to download Adobe Flash Plugin to view online streaming. PS: I have the latest version of Adobe Flash Plugin

Solution 1

I ran into the same issue. dpkg showed that flashplugin-installer was already installed but no flash in Firefox. I resolved it by running

sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer

Solution 2

After encountering a problem with adobe flash player not being clickable on cam chat sites I became very aggravated..and it takes that for me to fix stuff I guess.

Remove Flash player plugin from within firefox [is what I use] use:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove then,

use terminal to re-install flash plugin:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

After doing the exact above actions the adobe flash player problem was solved.

Comments

[gertvdijk]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Please include the output of dpkg -l \*flash\* run from a terminal and include what browser you're using. Do this by editing your question.

[nitishch]

you might want to avoid flash atleast for youtube by enabling HTML5 mode in youtube.