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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?

Byte Commander
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The Rubbish
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  • What is your Lubuntu version? – Pilot6 May 23 '15 at 15:15
  • @Pilot6 Version : 13.10 Codename : saucy – The Rubbish May 23 '15 at 15:22
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    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?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release) – karel May 23 '15 at 15:38

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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.

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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