Flash player installation via Synaptic

[MoLE]

On 2 July 2011 23:41, Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> On 02/07/11 21:54, Chris Robinson wrote:
>> If it's Firefox, get the flash-aid plugin:
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/
>> and let it run.  It's sorts out flash problems for most people.
>
> If there's already a version of flash installed through the package
> manager, you don't want to do this.
>
> Installing through synaptic, etc. is usually preferred, although i can
> understand why some people might want to do it independently of the
> package management system, since Flash breaks so frequently.

To be fair to flash-aid, it does uninstall and official packages and
symlinks before installing the latest beta version direct from adobe.
It also does a couple of optimisations which the official package doesn't do.

But yes, for most people's use - the official flash package should be fine.

Cheers,


MoLE