Upgrading flshplugin

[stan]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:40:25PM -0800, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> --- On Thu, 12/10/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> > Subject: Re: Upgrading flshplugin
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:00 PM
> > On 12/10/2009 02:17 PM, Leonard
> > Chatagnier wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- On Thu, 12/10/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > >> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> > > snipped
> > >>> 
> > >> 
> > >> In the machine with the outside access that has
> > been updated: open
> > >> a terminal and:
> > >> 
> > >> $ locate libflashplayer.so
> > >> 
> > >> $ locate libflashplayer.so 
> > >> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> > >> 
> > >> On SeaMonkey I simply use 'about:plugins' and it
> > gives me the
> > >> exact location: Shockwave Flash
> > >> 
> > >> File name:
> > /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so Shockwave
> > >> Flash 10.0 r42
> > ...
> > >> 
> > > I don't have that folder on my Karmics.? Did you
> > create it? From our
> > > off-list discussions I had the impression that you
> > use
> > > ~.mozilla/plugins to add you plugins on the SM pre2.02
> > alpa.
> > > Apparently, you don't use /opt/adobe/plugins for
> > this.? Contact me
> > > off-list if you want rather than sidetracking the OP's
> > thread. 
> > 
> > No, if you recall I am using 32bit & during out trials
> > & tribulations I
> > decided to go ahead and forgo the
> > ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/plugins and just
> > let SeaMonkey use the system plugins. So far it's been
> > working just fine
> > all the way to this current test version I am testing &
> > using:
> > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
> > rv:1.9.1.7pre)
> > Gecko/20091209 Lightning/1.0b1pre SeaMonkey/2.0.2pre
> > 
> That's all well and good and I'm using the same SM but for 64 bit as you know.  But what I wanted was some insite on the /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/ folder which I don't have natively.  I suppose you created it but how does one know that it will work. I suppose I could create an /usr/lib/seamonkey folder arbitrarily with a plugins subfolder and all the plugins installed there and it would work?  I know mozilla is the catch all for browser plugins mostly and wondered why not have a seamonkey directory since there is 2 for firefox and one for iceweasel,iceape or whatever.  Basically how do you know it will work?  Guess you have all the other plugins in /usr.lib/mozilla/plugins?

As far as I can see all this is outside the Ubuntu packaging system. So it
will never understand what you have dobe, and will try to upgrade
flash-plugin every time you run it in the future.

What I want to do is simply place the downlaoded tarball, or wahtever that
the outside acess machine obtains, in the place that the insied machies
would have downloaded it to, then apt-get should eb able to finsih the job.

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