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Games from facebook and others ask to update adobe but when I download it doesnt bring up the run it part

Asked by Dana Ayers

Games from facebook and others ask to update adobe but when I download it doesn't bring up the run it part. Not sure what I', doing wrong. It has me to extract it but it just gives me licenses and read stuff. Nothing to execute or run. So I can't properly download it and I'm not that computer savvy. HELP Please!!! and Thank you

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

You better use the Ubuntu-provided packages with adobe flash player.

Open the software center and install the flashplugin-installer package.

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Dana Ayers (mzpeechez) said : 		#2

I opened the software center but I could not find the flashplugin-installer package. I even put it in the search bar and it said it can not be found.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Try command-line mode: open a terminal window (e.g. by simultaneously pressing ctrl-alt-t) and issue the command

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

provide your password when asked, and note that you will not get any feedback when typing the password (no echo, not even '*' placeholders)

If this fails, please provide the output that you get for the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy

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Dana Ayers (mzpeechez) said : 		#4

Ok it downloaded something. So now should I see it in the software center or should it just work now?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

It should work now.

Open the flash player test page http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ in your browser to check whether you have the current version installed.
If this is not the case, please copy/paste the output of the following commands into this question document

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
dpkg -l | grep flash

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