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I have Adobe Flash Player installed on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 32-bit but there seems to be a few instances of the same player especially in Google Chrome. When I check through chrome://plugins/ I saw two entries and after I uninstalled by invoking the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin 
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flash
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer
sudo dpkg --purge flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get remove --purge ubuntu-restricted-extras adobe-flashplugin flashplugin-installer

I still got an entry in chrome://plugins/ that can be identified in the following screenshot. enter image description here

I would like to remove all instances of Flash Player and perform a clean reinstall, can you provide help on this issue?

Thanks in advance

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That flash is the one that is bundled with Google Chrome (and can only be used by Google Chrome). As such, you can't remove that without removing Chrome.

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  • Well thanks for the answer. I think that flash is not used system wide and cannot be upgraded manually.
    – Vesnog
    May 24, 2014 at 10:20
  • If you want a system-wide flash, you can install flashplugin-installer (for Flash 11.2, NPAPI) or use this PPA (for Flash 13.0, PPAPI, currently only used by Chromium).
    – saiarcot895
    May 24, 2014 at 11:29
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The Ubuntu Software Center should have the ability to uninstall this plugin. If not, I would recommend using Synaptic. It is a great software manager. Ubuntu used to use this manager; however, like other Ubuntu software, it was discontinued in later OS distros. Both are user friendly, unlike command line.

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  • But the system does not see two distinct players.
    – Vesnog
    May 23, 2014 at 19:09

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