Recently, I installed ubuntu updates and my browser asked me for flash player, which was previously installed. i tried to install using the regular command sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer But, it says flashplugin-installer is already the newest version Finally, I found the workaround. Previous installation has to removed first (which anyway is not working) Run the following commands : sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer Viola!! It works now.