<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I am puzzled by this thread; but then again, I am a user who lurks on this list, not a developer. Presumably, I do not understand. I run Kubuntu Karmic Alpha2, fully updated. Among the installed packages, I have the following: bruce@Xenophon:~$ apt-cache show flashplugin-installer Package: flashplugin-installer Priority: optional Section: multiverse/web Installed-Size: 176 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@knars.be> Architecture: amd64 Source: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 Replaces: flashplugin (<< 6), flashplugin-nonfree Provides: flashplugin-nonfree Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1), ia32-libs (>= 2.2ubuntu18), debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, fontconfig Recommends: libasound2-plugins (>= 1.0.16) Suggests: firefox, xulrunner-1.9, firefox-3.0, konqueror-nsplugins, x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs (>= 1:1.0.1-5) Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (<< 6), flashplugin-nonfree (<< 10.0.22.87ubuntu2~), libflashsupport, xfs (<< 1:1.0.1-5) Filename: pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.0.22.87ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 19124 MD5sum: 1271e320a25fab0fd29833df2d84f574 SHA1: b0389cb7ba3aaecca59fca1d29c3dcb536cc7eae SHA256: 75b63fd3450c5367fc50811e4e5c2418d42f0d987aa2b6fe31e412de4ebbbb31 Description: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer This package will download the Flash Player from the net. It is a Netscape/Mozilla type plugin. Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla can use the Flash plugin. This package currently supports the following browsers: Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape. Also Galeon and Epiphany can use the Flash plugin. Konqueror can also use the Flash plugin if konqueror-nsplugins is installed. . WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe flash plugin to be downloaded from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com">www.adobe.com</a>. The distribution license of the Adobe flash plugin is available at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com">www.adobe.com</a>. Installing this Ubuntu package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license. Homepage: <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9</a> Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384, 92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115 Npp-Description: Adobe Flash SWF Player (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com">http://www.adobe.com</a>) Npp-File: libflashplayer.so Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer) Bugs: <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug</a> Origin: Ubuntu The following appears to be the latest so-called Alpha version available directly from the Adobe web site: <a target="_blank" href="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz">http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz</a> A file compare shows that the two libraries are identical. Does this not mean that the Ubuntu repositories are already providing the most recent Adobe 64-bit flash? <div> </div>-- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bruce@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 <div>In the beginning... was the command line.<div> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><hr size="1">From: Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:19:17 PM Subject: Stable 64-bit flash IIRC, the Flash 64 bit Alpha almost made it into Intrepid, but was not because it is an alpha. It was already much more stable than using the 32-bit version on 64-bit Ubuntu, and now that <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html">64-bit Flash alpha 2 </a>is out, i recommend we make an exception, and include it in Karmic. -- <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo">http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo</a> </div></div></div></div></body></html>