• Registered: 2011-07-27
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Topic: The dreaded adobe flashplayer !

Ok ... so if you follow my babbling around the forum. You already know I despise adobe's flashplayer thingy. After putting it off for a long time, cause everything is working fine and saw no reason to fix stuff that wasn't broken. After hand wringing, decided it was time to update the adobe flashplayer version on this old PC, using the last release of #! ( stable ).

Here's how I went about it, but not sure I did it correctly, if I missed something important etc. And was hoping to ask da famed #! community about it.

Went to adobes site, downloaded the 32 bit "tar.gz for other linux" version of the latest flashplayer. Extracted the new one, copied the libflashplayer.so file. Went into all the mozilla browsers under Tools>Add ons>Plugins and disabled the older version. Then opened this folder as root ... That's the path to the file I was looking for ... Looking for the libflashplayer.so thingy obviously. wink

/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

As a precaution I made a copy of the old version and stuck it in a folder in /home.  In case it messed stuff up. Figured could just copy/paste it back and no harm, no foul. Then deleted the older versions file and pasted in the new one. Back into mozilla browsers plugins, new version shows up, enabled it. Went over to adobe's test site and it's showing the newest version of flashplayer is installed. Then hopped over to youtube to check that everything is working ... RAM/CPU seem normal and things are working fine for me so far.


Did I miss anything important ladies/gents ? Thanks in advance.



vll ! wink

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-27 15:24:24)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • From: inside Ed
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
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Re: The dreaded adobe flashplayer !

You'll have to manually repeat the process with every Flash update. I'd install the flashplugin-nonfree package, which you can update with 

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

but your method does work.

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Re: The dreaded adobe flashplayer !

Thank you much El_koraco,

Per usual, coming from someone like yaself. Can now breath easier about it and not have to worry I borked summin. I tried what you mention too, remember I'd asked about this before and you gave me that same advice. What you said looked like it worked like a charm, but I must've missed something or did something wrong. Cause I borked it and the old version kept showing up.

Did try that terminal command and for whatever unknowable reason, it was telling me no such command ( command not recognized ) or similar. More than likely summin I messed up or missed the 1st time around or changes I've done to sources.list/etc. Guess at least I know now how to upgrade the accursed thing manually.


Thanks again for the reply. wink


PS, on second thought, not sure I tried that full process on this #! install. Think I borked #! a couple months ago messing around w stuff. So this would be a new install. So will go ahead and tinker with the commands ya gave me in the other thread and see what happens. Yep still thanks though. Now have to dig up that older thread.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-25 22:33:03)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • From: inside Ed
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
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Re: The dreaded adobe flashplayer !

It would tell you this if you hadn't installed the package first. Simulate it

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree -s
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Re: The dreaded adobe flashplayer !

Thanks again ... cool tip.


Ok here goes, may as well do it apt-get style.



ty and vll ! smile


Yep ... worked like a charm and better than the method I was trying o course. So to recap for others, looks like it's the following commands.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Then when someone wants to upgrade the thing I guess.

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

I don't know if this is important or not. But have noticed I've had to comment out the statler repos in sources.list to get some updated software packages to install. Talking about this sucker, in /etc/apt/sources.list

## CRUNCHBANG
## Compatible with Debian Squeeze, but use at your own risk.
#deb http://packages.crunchbanglinux.org/statler statler main


Not sure that's relevant, adviseable etc. Works for me so far anyway. Thanks again to El for the tips and advice regardless. Just an add to this, thinking about it. Starting to feel sure someone would have to temp comment out the statler repo or adjust pin-priority. Think that's the reason the simple process El_koraco shared for updating the adobe flashplayer failed the 1st time around for me. Quick check of /etc/apt/preferences shows the statler repo gets priority for sure.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-26 17:25:47)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue