[ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:39 +0200, reSet Sakrecoer wrote:
> What is inside that tar.gz file? doubleclick it and see if you find
> some .deb file. Then mostlikley you just need to unpack the tar.gz
> file and double click it.

It's irrelevant what's inside the tar.gz, since all major distros,
including the official Ubuntu repositories used by Ubuntu Studio, do
provide the last version of Adobe's flash player.

"NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux
as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux." -
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

However the tar.gz doesn't include a .deb, it would be nonsense to pack
a .deb, but its contend mainly is the libflashplayer.so and a readme
file. There are different things you can do with this lib. If somebody
don't understand what to do with the lib and .deb wouldn't be available,
than alien likely could make a .deb from the provided .rpm.

"9/10/2013 – [snip] The latest versions are 11.8.800.174 (Win IE),
11.8.800.168 (Win non-IE), 11.8.800.168 (Mac) and 11.2.202.310 (Linux).
All users are encouraged to update to these latest versions." -
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Even with the Linux flash player installed, websites likely will nag
that you should downlaod current version of flash. Again, use Chrome
instead or another alternative would be to run Windows browsers using
wine or a virtual machine with a Windows guest.

The best thing to do, is to ignore home pages that need flash player for
flashy effects or to play videos with advertisements and/or proprietary
codecs, all the rest, e.g. playing YouTube videos, can be done with
HTML5.

Regards,
Ralf