Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc

[Liam Proven]

On 29 August 2013 16:35, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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??

I am not the world's greatest expert on Debian packaging, but it looks
to me like an install has tried and failed.

BTW you shouldn't need to muck around with the APT archives manually.
Memorize this handy little sequence of commands to clean up the APT
caches and so on:

apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get purge
apt-get autoremove


Run as root, obviously.

The 1st does the bulk of the work and deletes all the caches' contents.

I suggest you do those then re-run the `find` command and post the
results. Run it as root if you like - it gets rid of some errors.



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