<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Thanks, all.<br></div>Good to hear that things are as "automatic" as I had come to believe.<br></div>I generally ignore everything Adobe, and would have this time, but the nag came from the Mozilla folks, and I tend to trust them.<br>
</div>Again, thanks to all for the guidance.<br></div>This is a great group.<br></div>cheers<br></div>Pete<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net" target="_blank">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:39 +0200, reSet Sakrecoer wrote:<br>
> What is inside that tar.gz file? doubleclick it and see if you find<br>
> some .deb file. Then mostlikley you just need to unpack the tar.gz<br>
> file and double click it.<br>
<br>
</div>It's irrelevant what's inside the tar.gz, since all major distros,<br>
including the official Ubuntu repositories used by Ubuntu Studio, do<br>
provide the last version of Adobe's flash player.<br>
<br>
"NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux<br>
as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security<br>
backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux." -<br>
<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank">http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/</a><br>
<br>
However the tar.gz doesn't include a .deb, it would be nonsense to pack<br>
a .deb, but its contend mainly is the libflashplayer.so and a readme<br>
file. There are different things you can do with this lib. If somebody<br>
don't understand what to do with the lib and .deb wouldn't be available,<br>
than alien likely could make a .deb from the provided .rpm.<br>
<br>
"9/10/2013 – [snip] The latest versions are 11.8.800.174 (Win IE),<br>
11.8.800.168 (Win non-IE), 11.8.800.168 (Mac) and 11.2.202.310 (Linux).<br>
All users are encouraged to update to these latest versions." -<br>
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html</a><br>
<br>
Even with the Linux flash player installed, websites likely will nag<br>
that you should downlaod current version of flash. Again, use Chrome<br>
instead or another alternative would be to run Windows browsers using<br>
wine or a virtual machine with a Windows guest.<br>
<br>
The best thing to do, is to ignore home pages that need flash player for<br>
flashy effects or to play videos with advertisements and/or proprietary<br>
codecs, all the rest, e.g. playing YouTube videos, can be done with<br>
HTML5.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Ralf<br>
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