On 9/17/2014 6:18 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/17/2014 3:14 PM, W3BNR wrote: >> On 9/16/2014 6:22 PM, NFN Smith wrote: >>> W3BNR wrote: >>>> Running Linux Mint Qiana Ver 17 and the repsitories do not have either >>>> SeaMonkey or Adobe Flash listed in the search. So they have both been >>>> loaded and installed per instructions to no avail. Moving the >>>> libflashplayer.so to where it should be and other places which seemed >>>> like likely possibilities provided no solution to the problem Perhaps I >>>> should go back to Mint 13 where it everything worked. >>>> >>>> As I said - I don't really need flash video anyhow. >>> >>> >>> I know that with Ubuntu, the standard method for installing Flash is to >>> install flashplugin-installer. I have no problems with Flash running in >>> both Seamonkey and Firefox running on Ubuntu 12.04. >>> >>> I have a Mint installation (16, I think) on a VM, but don't have it >>> started at the moment. If I remember correctly, a majority of Mint's >>> packages come from Ubuntu repositories (except in places where Mint has >>> explicitly done something different). I'm guessing that you should be >>> able to install flashplugin-installer via normal Mint procedures, and >>> it's likely to do what you want. >>> >>> I checked the Mint repository, and for a quiana installation, this may >>> be what you're looking for: >>> http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/m/mint-flashplugin-10.2/mint-flashplugin-10.2_10.2.153.1_i386.deb >>> >>> >>> For what it's worth, Adobe is pretty sticky about demanding that >>> installs of its stuff come from direct downloads from Adobe servers. For >>> Windows and Mac stuff, if you're working in a corporate environment, and >>> want to keep current downloadables parked on a LAN, or distribution via >>> CD, you have to get a license to do that -- it's free, but they want an >>> estimate of how many copies get installed in the course of a year. >>> >>> With flash installers in Linux repositories, I believe that they're >>> merely frontend scripts that poll an Adobe server to download and install. >>> >>> Smith >>> >> >> Downloaded 10.2.153.1 as mentioned above. It installed effortlessly, >> unfortunatly SM blocks it when installed and wants to upgrade due to >> security issues. Tried the flash versions 11 and 10.3 but they won't >> install properly over 10.2 >> >> > > Quite some time ago, I found that Flash cannot be updated without first > deleting the prior version. It seems to install okay without deletion, > but it will not function unless all prior versions are deleted before > installation of a new version. For a while, I also had to install a new > version twice to get it to work. >
Thanks David - That did the trick. Un-installed the old libflashplayer.so and installed the new flashplayer without a problem. -- Ed, W3BNR _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
