Re: Flash problems again.

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 10:25:08 Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:43:16PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >Aptitude says:
> >Saving to:
> >`/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.TkQKb4rXAE/google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564.
> >109-1_amd64.deb'
> >
> >Konsole says:
> >
> >lisi@Tux-II:~$ cd /tmp
> >lisi@Tux-II:/tmp$ ls
> >kde-lisi            pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
> >kde-root            pulse-T1Aid8kZJiae
> >ksocket-global      scim-helper-manager-socket-lis
> >ksocket-lisi        scim-panel-socket:0-lisi
> >ksocket-root        ssh-YLUWIgR5587J
> >mozilla_lisi0       wine-0755cef476a701cb18e5ae4d3
> >orbit-lisi          wine-4dacf155583b81de854dd52fa
> >pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7  xauth.XXXXdnfBcp
> >lisi@Tux-II:/tmp$
> >
> >Can anyone explain?
>
> Not definitive, but I would guess that the package downloads the file to
> a temporary directory, then unpacks the flash plugin from it and
> installs it on your system. Finally, the temporary directory is deleted
> once it's no longer needed.
>
> The text "Saving to ..." and "... saved" would appear to come from wget,
> but it would probably be nice for the package installer to echo
> something afterwards to indicate that it's done more than just download
> a file onto your system.

Thanks!  It doesn't seem to have made any difference to anything. :-(

Lisi