Here's the shell script I just threw together to keep my system
current with whatever Adobe's offering. Silent unless trouble or
update, so suitable for a cron job. Not really tested much yet. :)
http://pastebin.com/eLfi9SNV
-- Ben
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[revisiting an old issue]
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Reading elsewhere, it would appear Canonical is hosting a repository
> for Adobe.
I don't think this was ever really addressed on-list, so: I did find
the APT repository which contains Adobe's "free" Linux soft
Benjamin Scott writes:
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> > > I see that they have an "apt:" URL in use `for Ubuntu 9.04+' ...
> >
> > Where's this you see that? :)
>
> Ah, found it. If one uses the "Get Flash" web page, "APT" shows up
> in the "Versions" drop do
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>> I see that they have an "apt:" URL in use `for Ubuntu 9.04+' ...
>
> Where's this you see that? :)
Ah, found it. If one uses the "Get Flash" web page, "APT" shows up
in the "Versions" drop down list. And then it produces this URL f
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
>> Anyway, today at least, Adobe provides a .deb package:
>
> But there you've still got the `doesn't automatically update via APT'
> situation, don't you ...
Yup, yup. It's just cleaner than the "fire and forget" approach the
flashp
Benjamin Scott writes:
>
> Hmm again. Okay, so I've just found something which makes me even
> less thrilled with Debian's approach (although this may be a new thing
> Adobe is doing so not really Debian's fault). Anyway, today at least,
> Adobe provides a .deb package:
>
>
> http://fp
