Uninstallin Flashplayer?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Uninstallin Flashplayer?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 8:21 PM
> On 11/30/2008 06:14 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 11/30/08, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> >> Subject: Re: Uninstallin Flashplayer?
> >> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 7:27 PM
> >> On 11/30/2008 12:25 PM, Daniel T Chen wrote:
> >> > On 11/30/2008 03:01 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
> wrote:
> >> >> "flashplayer". I can easily
> remove
> >> flashplugin-nonfree but what about 
> >> >> the flashplayer that the plugin
> installed.
> >> That's what I can't find 
> >> >> and what Adobe's message is all
> about. Sorry
> >> for my ignorance.
> >> >>
> >> >> Leonard Chatagnier
> >> >> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > 
> >> > The flashplugin-nonfree package only
> downloads and
> >> installs the Flash 
> >> > plugin for Web browsers.  It does not install
> any
> >> standalone ("heavy" or 
> >> > "thick") application.  In fact, on
> Ubuntu,
> >> the "Flash Player" to which 
> >> > the Adobe instructions refer is this plugin.
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> In addition, I would do a:
> >> 
> >> sudo updatedb
> >> locate libflashplayer.so
> >> 
> >> Note: updatedb is to ensure that any new installs
> are
> >> detected on the
> >> 'locate' as updatedb is only updated every
> 24 hours
> >> otherwise.
> >> 
> >> Then do an md5sum on each to ensure that they
> match. If
> >> they do not,
> >> replace any older with the new one (rename the old
> one in
> >> case you want
> >> to fall back & copy the new one to it's
> place).
> >> 
> >> So, if you find something like:
> >> 
> >>
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> >> 
> >> Do an md5sum on both:
> >> 
> >> md5sum
> >>
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >> md5sum
> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> >> 
> >> and compare.
> >> 
> >> 
> > Thanks Gary,
> > I did find one file not with the right
> libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree which I
> fixed. I admit I didn't use md5sums to check all the .so
> files and just used ls -al.  All had the same file size
> except the one above. The new 64 bit flash player is working
> great now. Go get it, 64 bit users.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> > 
> 
> File sizes don't mean squat; do a simple md5sum to
> check to ensure that
> the files are the same.
> 
> 
Gee Gary, you sure are bossy bitchy tonight; have too much turkey since Thanksgiving.-:)) But to make you happy I checked the md5sum on the one I corrected and the one in /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree that all the browser plugins are linked to and guess what, they all agreed. Thanks for the tip. I needed the practice-:))
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net