I cant watch YouTube videos on Firefox in Lubuntu 13.10

Question

If I try to watch video's or play games online, websites tell me that I don't have flash player installed.

When I try to install flash using the command line : sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer it tells :

the@the-desktop: ~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'flashplugin-installer' has no installation candidate '

Which additional steps are needed here to install flashplayer?

This version is not supported any more. That's why you can't install anything from repositories. Upgrade it to 14.04, and it will be solved. — Pilot6, May 23 '15 at 15:28
@Pilot6 Thank You . I taught that was the case but one more doubt should i download current lubuntu or Lubuntu LTS ? — The Rubbish, May 23 '15 at 15:36
possible duplicate of How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? — karel, May 23 '15 at 15:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '15 at 15:39

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Upgrading to a supported release likely will be the best solution - however if you go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 , you should be able to enable the HTML5 player: enter image description here

This does not need flash installed, though you will need a recent enough version of Firefox, and probably the needed video codecs.

answered May 23 '15 at 15:39

Wilf

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I agree; upgrade to 14.04. The HTML5 Player on YouTube is nice though because you can play videos at a faster or slower pace, for example 1.5x. If something requires Flash, I just open Chrome (I use Chromium though.) which has Adobe Flash baked in. – jbrock May 23 '15 at 16:56

I cant watch YouTube videos on Firefox in Lubuntu 13.10

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