Latest Adobe Flash plugin just installed

[NoOp]

On 02/09/2011 06:05 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 02/08/2011 10:23 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> A few minutes ago the Update Manager (for Maverick) installed the latest
>>> Adobe Flash plugin v 10.2.152.27.........and now I cannot see any videos
>>> (on YouTube, BBC, et al).
>>>
>>> The moral of this story is: do NOT install the new plugin.
>>
>> Is it?
>>
>> $ apt-cache policy adobe-flashplugin
>> adobe-flashplugin:
>>  Installed: 10.2.152.27-0maverick1
>>  Candidate: 10.2.152.27-0maverick1
>>  Version table:
>>  *** 10.2.152.27-0maverick1 0
>>        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick/partner i386 Packages
>>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
> 
> I'm feeling like I left part of my brain asleep today - I'm not seeing
> this on my workstation at all.  I have flashplugin,
> flashplugin-installer and flashplugin-nonfree, but nothing at all for
> adobe-flashplugin.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

That was from a 32 bit machine which uses adobe-flashplugin (which the
OP is also using).

>From a 64 bit machine (where all flash works just fine):

about:config from FF (Ubuntu version):

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206
Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13
Shockwave Flash

    File: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    Version:
    Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152

$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Candidate: 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
maverick-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
maverick-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     10.1.85.3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse amd64
Packages