Uninstallin Flashplayer?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:

> From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>
> Subject: Re: Uninstallin Flashplayer?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 2:38 PM
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 12:25 -0800, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> To use the 64 bit flash player, I
> moved
> /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to
> somewhere safe, copied the libflashplayer.so binary
> to /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree and redid the symlinks
> in /etc/alternatives:
> 
> xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
> xulrunner-flashplugin
> 
> to point to /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so.
> 
> You can see which library the plugin came from by doing an
> about:plugins
> in Firefox with the pathname expansion option on.  Look at
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:plugins for details about
> how to expose
> the pathnames of the plugins in the about:plugins display.
> 
Thanks, Smoot, so much. This is the info I was looking for. I think I can sort it out now.  Time will tell-:)) Appreciate your input.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net