Probably stupid question, but

[Ric Moore]

On 08/27/2013 01:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2013 12:31:56 Liam Proven did opine:
>
>> On 25 August 2013 18:51, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>> So how does one go about coaxing adobe to disgorge the correct .bin
>>> containing the .deb?
>>
>> You don't.

> And then you have the nerve to upbraid me for building from a tarball or
> installing the vendors .bin?

Gene, Liam gave you good advice, ~within the Ubuntu sphere of things~. 
Of course, olde time Red Hat users expect to install exotic apps 
straight from the vendor. But, not all distros keep lib locations and 
versions the same. I'm running 13.04 and the nVidia driver, straight 
from nVidia, for the first time ever just refused to work. The same 
could easily happen with adobe. So, since Ubuntu is FAR more liberal 
that Red Hat, you can easily install flash and nVidia drivers straight 
from the repos, ~IF you enable them~, as was first pointed out. I used 
the package manager to install my nVidia driver and nary a burp in the 
barrel. I even have a repo that I use strictly for Java, which updates 
itself routinely. I can't ask for better.

The only time I would go outside the sphere of Ubuntu packages is if the 
package clearly fails, or cannot be obtained any other way. Which is 
rarely.

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