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

scott redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com
Wed Mar 23 20:57:11 UTC 2011


On 03/23/2011 04:47 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ----------
> Tapas
>
> http://mightydreams.blogspot.com
>
It downloaded 'flashplugin-installer' first, then the installer went to 
"http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz" 
and downloaded 'adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz'.




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