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I have an EC2 instance running Ubuntu 12.10 and I'd like to install Flash Player on it. However, when I try to install it as follows, I'm unable to. Some hint on how I could proceed? Thanks.

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'flashplugin-installer' has no installation candidate

I haven't set up VNC yet, so I'd very much prefer a CLI solution for the same.

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Have you enabled sufficent sources of software? Since you want to install Flash via the CLI, you will have to edit your sources.list found here: /etc/apt/sources.list. To do so, you'll have to use sudo and a suitable editor such as nano after backing up the original file:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu to ensure that the sources you need are included. For example:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-updates main restricted multiverse universe
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main

You can read more here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine

Once you've edited sources.list to your satisfaction, you will need to refresh things and make apt aware of the changes by running

sudo apt-get update

You should then be able to install Flash Player with

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
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