Thanks, all. Good to hear that things are as "automatic" as I had come to believe. I generally ignore everything Adobe, and would have this time, but the nag came from the Mozilla folks, and I tend to trust them. Again, thanks to all for the guidance. This is a great group. cheers Pete
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:39 +0200, reSet Sakrecoer wrote: > > What is inside that tar.gz file? doubleclick it and see if you find > > some .deb file. Then mostlikley you just need to unpack the tar.gz > > file and double click it. > > It's irrelevant what's inside the tar.gz, since all major distros, > including the official Ubuntu repositories used by Ubuntu Studio, do > provide the last version of Adobe's flash player. > > "NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux > as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security > backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux." - > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > > However the tar.gz doesn't include a .deb, it would be nonsense to pack > a .deb, but its contend mainly is the libflashplayer.so and a readme > file. There are different things you can do with this lib. If somebody > don't understand what to do with the lib and .deb wouldn't be available, > than alien likely could make a .deb from the provided .rpm. > > "9/10/2013 – [snip] The latest versions are 11.8.800.174 (Win IE), > 11.8.800.168 (Win non-IE), 11.8.800.168 (Mac) and 11.2.202.310 (Linux). > All users are encouraged to update to these latest versions." - > http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html > > Even with the Linux flash player installed, websites likely will nag > that you should downlaod current version of flash. Again, use Chrome > instead or another alternative would be to run Windows browsers using > wine or a virtual machine with a Windows guest. > > The best thing to do, is to ignore home pages that need flash player for > flashy effects or to play videos with advertisements and/or proprietary > codecs, all the rest, e.g. playing YouTube videos, can be done with > HTML5. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >
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