when you try to install flash from the adobe site - it does nothing
it needs apturl installed
after installing firefox and apturl
i get the error
Unknown channel 'lucid-partner'
The channel 'lucid-partner' is not known
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Flash-based+videos+and+sound+do+not+play+correctly
solution
click start ->accessories -> LXTERMINAL in lubuntu and type or paste
sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer
restart firefox and chromium
below is the output from the above command in the lxterminal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 libdiscover2 python-pyicu discover cryptsetup
libecryptfs0 reiserfsprogs rdate localechooser-data ecryptfs-utils
libdebconfclient0 discover-data dmraid
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/20.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 72083 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 10.1.82.76ubuntu0.10.04.2 (using .../flashplugin-installer_10.1.82.76ubuntu0.10.04.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.82.76ubuntu0.10.04.2) ...
Downloading...
--2010-08-19 09:44:20-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.82.76.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4884791 (4.7M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.82.76.orig.tar.gz'