Upgrading flshplugin

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 12/11/09, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: Upgrading flshplugin
> To: "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 5:03 AM
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:55:38PM
> -0800, NoOp wrote:
> > On 12/10/2009 06:23 PM, stan wrote:
> > ...
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > *Please* stop sending your responses directly to the
> list user; we all
> > read the list and don't need added msgs. Just respond
> to the list please
> > - ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com.
> :-)
> > 
> > Regarding your other machines, I've already shown you
> how to find the
> > proper .so & location. So copy that .so to the
> other machines. Or
> > install directly from Adobe [1], or fix your proxy.
> > 
> > Using adobe-flashplugin will *always* go out to adobe
> and download the
> > update; Ubuntu do not keep Adobe's flash code on their
> repositories. See:
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/flashplugin-installer
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/
> > 
> 
> WARNING! DO NOT FOLLOW THIS IDIOTS ADVICE!
> 
> Doing so will put your system in a state that is not what
> the packaging
> system expects and sooner or later this will cause our
> packaging system to
> be unable to properly maintain your system.
> 
> You should NEVER manually change files maintained by the
> packaging system,
> other than config files.
> 
> If you want to maintain anything, including flash plugin
> OUTSIDE the
> packaging system, start off by deleting the package, so
> that the packing
> system has no knowledge of the files involved.
> 
> Of course, doing this means it is now your responsibility
> to take care of
> these files forever.
> 
> And to the original poster, figure out how to configure
> your MUA,  or get a
> real one!
>
You are about to be plonked.
  
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net