Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin Scott
[revisiting an old issue] On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com 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

Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin Scott
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 ___

Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-02-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com 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

Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian

2011-02-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com 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

Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com 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:

Re: Managing installs of Adobe Flash on Debian (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com 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