How to update Adobe flash player for Ubuntu

As of May 2015, the old "pepperflashplugin-nonfree" is deprecated in favour of an official, maintained, one-step package called adobe-flashplugin, which works for Firefox and Chromium and derivatives, but not for Yandex.

I've tried many methods and this is the only one which work so far!

First, open the software centre and go to the

• 'edit' tab at the top of the screen. Now select 
• 'software sources' and select the 
• 'Other Sources' tab. Under that, check the two boxes for:
• 'Canonical Partners'

Now install 'synaptic' by searching for it in the Software centre. 

Open synaptic and in the

• 'quick filter' box, search for 'adobe'. Look for a package which says 
• 'flashplugin-installer'. Right click it's box and select:
• 'Mark for removal'

This piece of crap 'flashplugin-installer' has never ever worked or updated properly!

Now find the package:

• 'adobe-flashplugin' right click on it and select:
• 'Mark for installation'.

Synaptic will probably want to also add 'adobe-flash-properties-gtk' so approve this as well.

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