• Registered: 2011-07-27
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Topic: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Put it off for quite awhile, cause am overdue for borkage. Plus I despise the adobe flashplayer ... ( DIE adobe flashplayer ! DIE ! wink  ) Recently decided it was time to upgrade to a newer version. Managed it ok ... So why not another babbling how to on the topic, shrugs.


Credit mostly goes to El_koraco though ... see this thread. Mainly posting for posterity, case other folks come looking for the info etc. In this case it's the last release of crunchbang 32bit adobe flashplayer, not the more recent one. Though see no reason it wouldn't apply to future versions too. May want to give this thread a looksee if for 64bit.


1st things ... errrr, well 1st. big_smile


Noticed I had to comment out ( Put one of these> # ) in front of the statler repo in /etc/apt/sources.list to get newer software packages to install. Then open a terminal and ... 

sudo apt-get update

Statler repos taking priority is what I think caused me probs when I tried doing the following before. Why I think it failed to work ... blah.


Next off, we install the sucker. Open terminal and type ...

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Then to update that sucker in future.

sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install --verbose

Between all these threads and this attempt to simplify things for future users. Someone should be able to take adobe's curse well in hand and bend it to their/your will ... tongue Any clarifications, useful additions etc are always welcome of course. Anything I may've missed or gotten wrong ... so forth.





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PS, Afterthought babbling ... stuff about apt, apt-pinning blahblahblah. See ... Apt babbling.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-02-01 10:32:42)

  • From: inside Ed
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
  • Posts: 2,260

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

There's no more need to do anything special for 64 bit Flash. Since version 11, there's a native 64 bit version for Linux, that gets installed with flashplugin-nonfree.

  • Registered: 2011-07-27
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Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Thanks El ...


Wasn't sure, so didn't want to act like I was. So the clarification is appreciated El_koraco ... It's back to the mines I go. Happy computing peeps. wink

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-27 18:58:03)

  • From: In Front of The Black Gates
  • Registered: 2011-04-26
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Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

The only reason to still use it manually is so that you can get the latest version at any given time, should there be a need.

I updated mine manually because the flashplugin-nonfree version at the time was buggy on my nVidia rigs

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  • From: inside Ed
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
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Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

VastOne wrote:

The only reason to still use it manually is so that you can get the latest version at any given time, should there be a need.

The same happens when you run update-fpnf. It downloads the latest tarball from Adobe. It used to be that Flash on 64 bit systems was the 32 bit version via nspluginwrapper, and people were downloading the beta 64 bit from Adobe Labs.

  • From: In Front of The Black Gates
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Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Thanks for that El_K, I was not aware of this..

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