Upgrading flshplugin

Sat Dec 12 03:14:47 UTC 2009

(My apologies to the list for the length of this post)

On 12/11/2009 03:03 AM, stan wrote:
> 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!

I see... so previous advise that this idiot gave to you in past threads
regarding other issues must have been bad as well.

> 
> 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.

Just like when I broke your system with MySQL. Right?

> 
> You should NEVER manually change files maintained by the packaging system,
> other than config files.

For you, I agree: never.

> 
> 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.

OK.

> 
> Of course, doing this means it is now your responsibility to take care of
> these files forever.

It is *your* system. Isn't it?

> 
> And to the original poster, figure out how to configure your MUA,  or get a
> real one!

My MUA works just fine... perhaps you need to configure Mutt to only
reply to the list:

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:03:18 -0500
From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
To: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading flshplugin
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i

You see, that is the issue. Instead of replying to the list, you
purposely reply to the user in the list directly, and then CC the list.
Perhaps you don't realize it, but this *is* a mailing list, which means
that responses are read by users via the *list*, and your replying
directly to the poster means the user/poster has to download and either
read, or plonk your direct email. As for me, I've now simply elected to
plonk your direct emails at my ISP. Send away; all now go into dev/null.

Getting back to the Adobe Flash issue:

1. flashplugin-non-free is transitional:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/flashplugin-nonfree
<quote>
This package is a transitional package that can safely be removed after
you installed flashplugin-installer.
</quote>
So you are attempting to use approx with outdated packages to begin with.

2. I've already pointed out that flashplugin-installer (to include
adobe-flashplugin) are packages that go out and pull down the Adobe
Flash plugin (they use wget if you look at the code). Perhaps you
neglected to read the information on the link I provided to you:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/flashplugin-installer
<quote>

Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

This package will download the Flash Player from the net. It is a
Netscape/Mozilla type plugin. Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla
can use the Flash plugin. This package currently supports the following
browsers: Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape. Also
Galeon and Epiphany can use the Flash plugin. Konqueror can also use the
Flash plugin if konqueror-nsplugins is installed.

WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe flash plugin to
be downloaded from www.adobe.com. The distribution license of the Adobe
flash plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu
package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license.
</quote>

If you'd like to look at and/or down load the source for the package
click on the '[ Source: flashplugin-nonfree]' link on that page.

3. The above downloads creates a few folders and installs the Adobe
libflashplugin.so binary - this is what is used to run flash. So let's
take a look at what the results of flashplugin-installer provides:

flashplugin-installer
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/xulrunner
/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/iceape
/usr/lib/iceape/plugins
/usr/lib/iceweasel
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/midbrowser
/usr/lib/midbrowser/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/dirs.d
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/dirs.d/flashplugin-installer
/usr/share
/usr/share/ubufox
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/flashplugin-installer
/usr/share/doc/flashplugin-installer/copyright
/usr/share/doc/flashplugin-installer/changelog.gz
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/flashplugin-installer
/var
/var/lib
/var/lib/flashplugin-installer
/var/cache
/var/cache/flashplugin-installer

===============================================================
Now from Firefox after installing:
Shockwave Flash
    File name: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42

And looking for files we find:
$ locate libflashplayer
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

And now adobe-flashplugin (note this package conflicts with
flashplugin-installer and so will uninstall it in the process):

adobe-flashplugin
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/xulrunner
/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/iceape
/usr/lib/iceape/plugins
/usr/lib/iceweasel
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/midbrowser
/usr/lib/midbrowser/plugins
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/adobe-flashplugin
/usr/share/doc/adobe-flashplugin/copyright
/usr/share/doc/adobe-flashplugin/changelog.Debian.gz

==================================================
Shockwave Flash
    File name: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate libflashplayer
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Now from Adobe's downloaded Flash .deb
(install_flash_player_10_linux.deb which is tailored for Ubuntu):
Package: adobe-flashplugin
Version: 10.0.42.34-1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: DL-Flash Player Ubuntu <FlashPlayerUbuntu at adobe.com>
Installed-Size: 10132
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, fontconfig, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0),
libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libnspr4-dev, libpango1.0-0 (>=
1.20.5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, wget
Suggests: firefox, konqueror-nsplugins, libnspr4-0d, libnss3-1d,
msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree,
x-ttcidfont-conf, xfs (>= 1:1.0.1-5)
Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (<< 6),
flashplugin-installer, xfs (<< 1:1.0.1-5)
Replaces: flashplugin (<< 6)
Provides: flashplugin-nonfree
Section: partner/web
Priority: optional
Description: Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10
 This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe. It is a
 Netscape/Mozilla type plugin. Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla
can use
 the Flash plugin. This package officially supports the following browsers:
 .
 Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, SeaMonkey 1.11
Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384,
92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115
Npp-Description: Adobe Flash Plugin (http://www.adobe.com)
Npp-File: libflashplayer.so
Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash
Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Plugin

And after all of that it basically provides/installs:
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Go have a look yourself. All of the code is there, the packages are
there for you to determine if I'm such an idiot, or not. I'll leave the
issue of how to use approx to update and or sync the other machines with
the updated libflashplugin.so to you.

Note the above applies to 32bit flash only... you can do your own
research if you are using 64bit machines/flash.