John Rambo. I had a similar problem about six months ago, and this is what I found to fix it.
You have two options at this point.
- Switch to Google Chrome. It now has a built-in version of flash.
- Check your software installation. A version of flash is available in the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, or kubuntu-restricted-extras, xubuntu-restricted-extras, etc.
The reason Youtube still works is because Youtube has added HTML5 support, which is built in to almost every browser (with the exception of Internet Explorer, which still doesn't fully support it as of version 9 or 10) since around 2009.
The flashplugin-installer package should be all you need, and that is installed with the restricted extras packages.
Please note that downloading and installing the .deb from Adobe does not work unless you move a file to Firefox's directory.
As was stated in the comments, there is no Firefox PPA, because no one needs one. Everything Firefox related that you would ever need is in the Ubuntu repositories or available through a Firefox extension.
The fix I recommend is installing Google Chrome JUST for Adobe connect, so long as Flash works well for everything else on Firefox.
chrome.google.com is the place to find it.
Sorry there is no fix for this. The latest Flash version provided by Adobe for Linux is 11.2. And pogo.com requires >11.7
As a workaround you could install a Windows version of e.g. Firefox in Wine or in a VM and use Flash for Windows with that. But that's quite ugly. I'd rather look for alternative websites/games.
Edit: Install Chromium with Pepper Flash
Open a Terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser pepflashplugin-installer
echo ". /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh" | sudo tee -a /etc/chromium-browser/default
Now open Chrome and go to chrome://plugins. If everything was correct you should see now Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.8.XXX
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Note: This answer is severely outdated. Please refer to karel’s answer instead which describes how Canonical and Adobe currently recommend to install Flash Player in Ubuntu.
For Linux, the latest version of Adobe Flash Player is 11.2 which you already have. Sorry, but it cannot be updated to 11.8. Adobe provides security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.
To install the Flash plug-in on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), please follow this process:
Enable the
multiverserepository, as shown here: How do I enable the "multiverse" repository?Open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy/paste this line:
When the Flash Player is installed, close the terminal window and restart your browser.