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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>