Uninstallin Flashplayer?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: Uninstallin Flashplayer?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 12:15 PM
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:07:28 -0800 (PST)
> 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 just did
> 
> cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
> 
> It seems to work OK.
> 
Thanks Richard,
That's what I've always done in the past when only the .so file is shown but the Adobe message gave me cold feet. However, there are several items in /etc/alternatives that have the 32 bit flashplayer mentioned:
Linked to below:

/var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

And I wonder just how this should be handled... Found no man or info on alternatives. Thanks for the help.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net