Instead, went to or whatever and downloaded the rpm not the deb (as noted, the apt/deb file is for Ubuntu and would not download - Firefox did not recognise the protocol). Something called pepper exists, but only for Chrome, or maybe there’s a wrapper so it’ll work on Firefox but maybe the wrapper is flaky and… I dunno. “The address wasn’t understood”, and the browser went to apt:adobe-flashplugin?channel=$distro-partner deb file, but apparently this needs some kind of handler for apt-get type installation through the browser which is specific to Ubuntu, a Debian derivative, and I use actual Debian, so no good.Īnother time, I selected ‘APT for Debian/Ubuntu’ and got the error message: So I clicked through the links and ended up on Adobe’s Flash page. I’d rather just not use it, but the computer needs to work with Flash-enabled education-related websites, I have no choice in the matter if important things are going to get done.

It worked.įirefox is always telling me my Flash installation is outdated and a security risk.

Firefox flash plugin process