On 8/10/2012 7:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2012 19:16:02 Kent A. Reed did opine: > >> On 8/10/2012 5:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> <...> >>> And at the instant, my only problem is flashplayer. Its installed, >>> and visible open theabout:plugins page of all 3 machines with >>> 10.04.4 LTS installed from our own custom linuxcnc install cd. >>> >>> But it is not working, either for firefox or the freecad tutorials >>> which are in flash. >> Gene: >> >> I can't say about your installation but in mine, a Flash Player was not >> installed by default. Try >> http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html or >> http://www.codegeek.net/flash-version.php to see what Flash Player, if >> any, you have installed. >> >> There are several choices for flash players. I chose to go with the >> Adobe Flash Player. Go to http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ and click on >> the box "Get Adobe Flash Player." Follow instructions (I chose the "APT >> for Ubuntu 10.04+" option and then the apturl option to launch). When >> you are done, try one of the test pages again. >> > I did this, selecting the apt for ubuntu-10.04+, entered the passwd, (it > looked to be the identical version number already installed), and it went > through the motions of the install, then upchucked and bailed out with the > same messages I've already seen several times, which are: > > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.236-0lucid1_i386.deb: > trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player- > properties.png', which is also in package flash-plugin 0 > > And: > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flash-properties- > gtk_11.2.202.236-0lucid1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/flash- > player-properties', which is also in package flash-plugin 0 > > ANAICT, its already installed, but it isn't working. Lemme nuke those 2 > files & try again. And that makes no difference, I installed again, and > failed with exactly the same error pair. After I had nuked them as root. > > And the files have NOT come back, so that error is likely phony as a $3 > bill. > > Now, I used mc to unpack and restore those files, so I am back where I > started.
Gene: I'm bummed. I just looked through the Ubuntu package list. Apparently Ubuntu provides its own version(s) of an installer (one is the flashplugin-installer, the other is the transitional flashplugin-nonfree) and apparently you used it. I can't explain why the Adobe Flash Player you installed isn't working, but this just reinforces my determination to use the program developer's installer instead, as I do with other serious software packages I use. Did you try the test pages I mentioned? I assume they said no player is installed. <conjecture> The Package Manager is complaining that files in the manifest of the Adobe .deb file conflict with files in the manifest for the Ubuntu version. That's why you get this error message even though you've deleted the files themselves. </conjecture> I expect if you want to try the Adobe version you'll first have to uninstall the Ubuntu version. >> Could it be that you are seeing the Adobe Shockwave Flash plugin listed? >> That's something else as you can tell by looking at the MIME types to >> which it responds. > How do you tell the diffs?, the version numbers are identical. Never mind. Adobe has really muddied the water here. The better test is to try one of the test pages I mentioned previously. > And remember, I have 3 machines all running this exact install, and they > are all failing in the identical way. That just means they are all configured the same way; it doesn't tell us if they are configured correctly :-) > Thanks Kent. > I don't have anything more to offer. It all "just worked" for me in every browser I've used (I've been using Chrome a lot lately). Good luck. Regards, Kent PS - Call me an old fusspot, but it seems to me using root privilege to nuke files installed from packages is akin to playing Russian roulette. I won't pretend I've never done it but I've trained myself not to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
