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With Firefox, I have been to a number of websites, such as Hulu, for video streaming that return an error message that I don't have Flash installed. Well, of course I do. I can play YouTube videos fine. Hulu is a special case which also reports that I cannot play protected content, which may be a separate issue, but then it also states, erroneously, that I need to install Flash. How can this be resolved?

As requested in comments here is the output of apt-cache search adobe flash

texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
flashplugin-installer - Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
flashplugin-downloader - Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (transitional package)
flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound - Adobe Flash Player platform support library for Esound and OSS
bleachbit - delete unnecessary files from the system
cclive - lightweight command line video extraction tool
konqueror-nsplugins - Netscape plugin support for Konqueror
libjs-swfobject - tool to embed Flash content into webpages
libquvi-dev - library for parsing video download links (development package)
libquvi-doc - library for parsing video download links (documentation package)
libquvi-scripts - library for parsing video download links (Lua scripts)
libquvi7 - library for parsing video download links (runtime libraries)
libvdpau-va-gl1 - VDPAU driver with OpenGL/VAAPI backend
nomnom - download videos from Youtube and other similar video websites
quvi - command line program to extract video download links
red5-doc - flash streaming server - documentation
red5-server - flash streaming server
adobe-flashplugin - Adobe Flash Player plugin
adobe-flash-properties-gtk - GTK+ control panel for Adobe Flash Player plugin
adobe-flash-properties-kde - KDE control panel Adobe Flash Player plugin

System Info:

  • The universe distribution component is enabled for all sources.
  • Flash plugin enabled in Firefox: Shockwave flash 11.2 r202 and 13.1 r2
  • 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.4
  • Hardware (in case it matters): * Acer Aspire laptop * AMD A6-1450 APU w/ Radeon HD Graphics × 4 * Gallium 0.4 on AMD KABINI
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You have html5 plugin for firefox installed, which allows watching youtube videos, but sites like hulu do require flash. You can verify that if you go to about:config and then Plugins in firefox, OpenH264 is what you're looking for

To install flash , run sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer, but keep in mind that the latest version is 11.2.577 and Adobe removed support for Linux version of flash like since last year and it won't be supported anymore.

Note that you must have multiverse repository enabled in System Settings -> Software & Updates

Alternatively, switch to pepper flash in Chrome

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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