Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

[Rolf Turner]

On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on
>> them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have
>> flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I
>> (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package
>> is already installed.
>>
>>
> Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.

So is there anything that I can do so as to be able to watch such videos?

     cheers,

     Rolf Turner