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Re: Where to install Flash Player?



On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:01:42 -0400 Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info>
wrote:

> I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and 
> used dpkg -i to install it.
> 
> Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok 
> installed but dpkg -p flash-player-ppapi doesn't recognize it.

There are a plethora of locations where Flash can be installed
and work.  I've done it manually since my Fedora days.  Download the
tar.gz file directly from Adobe and copy, as root, libflashplayer.so
to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/  Never fails to work.

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