Marc Shapiro wrote:
Well, with the mystery of why flash was playing on my system (if not why locate wasn't finding it) solved, I renamed the plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins and then installed flashplugin-nonfree and created a symlink to the new plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Now about:plugins shows version 9.0 d78. Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run on v7 that I can test this with?Kent West wrote:And this is weirder -- after running updatedb, locate now says that libflashplayer.so exists in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Ok, so it is installed locally, instead of globally. I can deal with that. But why did locate not find it before? Is updatedb not running automatically on my system? Maybe I'll go back to using 'find' instead of 'locate.' The syntax for locate is easier, but find never missed anything before (that I know of).Marc Shapiro wrote:I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. Curiouser and curiouser.Okay; that's getting weird. "updatedb" runs by default, I believe, every day. However, just to be sure, I'd run it manually, then do another run of your locate command.
-- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42@yahoo.com