downgraded to an old version of flash how to trace what changes were made by installer

Tapas Mishra mightydreams at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 20:47:00 UTC 2011


I was having some problem with flash player version 10.2 so I had to
downgrade it.
Based on instructions here
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/fix-pinkred-youtube-videos-bug-using.html#more
for 64 bit
before doing above I had taken a backup
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so.old

Now I did
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

I am not able to find out what changes had the above dpkg thing made
to my system i.e. what additional things were downloaded and which
files it added to my system?How can I trace these changes?
I looked /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/apt/term.log
but to my surprise there was no information about this downgrade of
Adobe Flash player to an older version.

here is the screen output when I downgraded to an old version
dpkg: warning: downgrading flashplugin-installer from
10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.04.1 to 10.1.85.3ubuntu1.
(Reading database ... 191239 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.04.1
(using flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.85.3ubuntu1) ...
Downloading...
--2011-03-24 02:07:37--
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4884470 (4.7M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz'

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2011-03-24 02:08:24 (103 KB/s) -
`./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz' saved [4884470/4884470]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.




So it appears it surely downloaded some thing but what and where that
is not clear to me.


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Tapas

http://mightydreams.blogspot.com




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