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Re: flashplayer9?



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Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>> 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.
>>   
> 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).
> 

That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.


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