Adobe Flash

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Peter Smith
<peter.smith3882100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed Adobe Flash 10.3 r181 on Ubuntu 10.04 from the tar.gz
> package. With this release there is also a control panel for
> controlling Flash settings, i have copied the files as followed:
>
> /usr/bin/flash-player-properties
> /usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png
>
> After this is navigate to System -> Preferences and i see a new entry
> called "Adobe Flash Player" without any icon, if i click on the entry
> the Adobe Flash control panel is correctly loaded. If i reboot or log
> out of the system, the Adobe Flash control panel entry disappears, but
> the flash-player-properties.desktop is still in
> /usr/share/applications/.
>
> What could be the problem here?


Did you try installing it from the repositories previously, and it
didn't work? If not, try to manually uninstall the one you installed,
and then install the one from the repositories.



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