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

[Tapas Mishra]

> 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'
>>
>>      0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  1% 14.8K
>> 5m19s
>>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:27 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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'.
>
> --

So what is this thing which I downloaded via wget

wget  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

how is it different from the one it downloaded?