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

[scott]

On 03/23/2011 05:05 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> 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?
>
I was wrong in my first post. The 'flashplugin-installer' was the one 
you installed with 'dpkg -i'.

See here "http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/flashplugin-installer" for 
a brief explanation of what 'flashplugin-installer' does.