Uninstallin Flashplayer?
Chris Jones
christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch
Sun Nov 30 18:33:02 UTC 2008
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Instructions for installing the new alpha tar.gz for the 64 bit adobe flashplayer says:
> "Important: All users should uninstall any currently installed Flash Player before installing the latest prerelease."
>
> I'm wondering if there is any more to it than just rming the file, libflashplayer.so, from the system. The current adobe flashplayer was installed with "flashplugin-nonfree" on Intrepid, up to date, on a fresh install, not upgraded, using the alternate AMD64 CD.
> Any enlightenment is most welcome as I have downloaded the new alpha version, extracted it and only the libflashplayer.so file was found. No readme or bin files were found.
I would properly remove the deb package first, using 'apt-get remove' or
whatever other application you prefer. Then just copy the .so file to
your ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory.
Chris
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