Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Pete Smout]

On 29 August 2013 15:51, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 15:18, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Install mc (Midnight Commander) - the Swiss Knife of file managers.
>>
>> In the console, on a command line run 'mc'; click on the 'Command' option at
>> the very top left and then click on 'Find File' - a menu will drop down.
>> Untick/tick the options which you see as per what is shown here:
>>
>> http://susepaste.org/31607637
>>
>> Select the starting point for the search - use / - and type in the name of
>> the file you are looking for on the 'File Name' line; press OK and 'mc' will
>> go away and look in all your connected/active devices for that file.
>
> What's wrong with the `find` command?
>
> find / -name *flash*
>
> Seems much simpler to me...
>
>
>
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Thanks Liam..... Interesting result http://pastebin.com/Evj7VBtP

correct me if I am wrong but the permission denied's are root (I did
not sudo find), and the interesting bit is

/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flash-properties-gtk.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flash-properties-gtk.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin

&

/var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.297-0precise1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.297ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flash-properties-gtk_11.2.202.297-0precise1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound_0.0.svn2431-3ubuntu1_i386.deb


&


find: `/etc/ssl/private': Permission denied
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/48/media-flash.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/48/gnome-dev-flashkey.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/48/gnome-dev-flashdisk.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/48/media-flash-cf.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/48/media-flash-ms.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/24/media-flash.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/24/gnome-dev-flashkey.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/24/gnome-dev-flashdisk.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/24/media-flash-cf.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/devices/24/media-flash-ms.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/mimes/128/application-x-flash-video.svg
/etc/skel/.icons/elementary/mimes/128/application-x-shockwave-flash.svg


yet firefox does not show adobe flash at all just shockwave which don't play....
Google Chrome tries to play with shockwave even though
/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so is there, yet
synaptic shows that swf, gnash, shockwave flash is not installed??

apt-cache policy time....

steve at steve-desktop-3:~$ apt-cache policy adobe-flashplugin
adobe-flashplugin:
  Installed: 11.2.202.297-0precise1
  Candidate: 11.2.202.297-0precise1
  Version table:
 *** 11.2.202.297-0precise1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


how can I use it its there??

hope all this helps, as all i have learned is that Adobe's is there
even if ff don't know it yet or Google chrome??


Pete Smout