Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

[Kevin Ross <kevin@familyross.net>]

On 11/12/2011 09:04 AM, J. Bakshi wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the latest plugin
> at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
>
> after uncompromising it I get
>
> 1. libflashplayer.so
> 2. usr folder
>
> I have copied libflashplayer.so at /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
> but google-chrome still complaining about a old version and firefox
> want to download the plugin to activate flash support. Interestingly
> both the browser finally goes to the adobe site and download the same version
> as /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
>
> Confused !!! can any one help please ?

May I suggest using the flashplayer-mozilla package from 
debian-multimedia.org instead?  It contains a prepacked flash binary, 
just like any other package, instead of a script that goes and downloads 
the binary from the Adobe website.  This way, you get updates to the 
flash binary whenever you update your system, just like any other package.

Of course, it takes a while before he packages the latest version.  But 
that being said, the version that's currently packaged is 11.1 (even for 
stable/Squeeze).

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin