How to update Flash Player

[buzzlightyear]

Brand new to Linux, know nothing.

Installed LXLE (32bit 14.04.3 I think) on my dying Win XP machine. Like it so far a lot.

Go to places like Youtube and others and it wants me to update my Flash player.

I downloaded a tar.gz update.

The readme says "Unpack the tar.gz and copy the files to the appropriate location."

Where might the appropriate location be and is "unpack" the same as "extract"?

Thanks in advance.

[unlockiphonese]

Keep Google Chrome up to date. Flash is integrated into Google Chrome for Linux, and this is the only officially-supported version of Flash on Linux now. ...
Open the Chrome browser. ...
Click the Chrome Menu button (☰). ...
Wait for Chrome to update.

[drooly]

the previous post doesn't make much sense.

buzzlightyear, there was a security issue with the flashplugin a while ago, and iirc firefox would throw a warning. is that what you are seeing?

in any case, please try to update your system (and keep it up-to-date!).

execute the following commands in a terminal and post the complete output here:

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get-update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree