Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.
On Sunday 23 April 2017 07:35:36 Frank de Bruijn wrote:
> Op 23-04-17 om 12:37 schreef Gene Heskett:
> > On Sunday 23 April 2017 01:54:21 Frank wrote:
> >> Op 23-04-17 om 06:21 schreef Gene Heskett:
> >>> And how do you get that 10 year newer flash? The adobe site
> >>> doesn't show me anything newer than the 11.xx.xx.xxx stuff.
> >>
> >> Really? Both https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and
> >> https://get.adobe.com/nl/flashplayer/ definitely show 25.0.0.148
> >> for me.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Frank
> >
> > After writing that, I did a google search, which gave me a slightly
> > different adobe url and that link gave me a tarball of 25.0.0.148.
> > The installation instructions were a bit confusing, so I wound up
> > overwriting libflashplayer.so in 5 locations with this newer
> > version. Leftovers from previous attempts to arrive at a working 75%
> > of the time flash player. No one, including me, has a clue where
> > the one being used actually is.
>
> I usually look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, but the plugin file there
> may actually be a symlink pointing to something in /etc/alternatives,
> which in turn will probably point to some other item somewhere in
> /usr/lib...
>
> Regards,
> Frank
The link in /etc/alternatives points at the new version
in /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
So I think I'm ok. Thank you for reminding me about alternatives.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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