[PLUG] Upgrading Adobe Flashplayer in xUbuntu-10.4

jen montserrat jen.montserrat at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 23:21:29 UTC 2010


Why not just download the most recent and place the file in her own home
directory for her web browser instead of using it globally?  I would
download the .tar.gz file and then toss the libflashplayer.so file into
~/.mozilla/plugins - assuming she is using Firefox or Iceweasel.

~ Jen

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   Apparently, the flash player installed with xUbuntu-10.4 is rather
> outdated. My wife wants to watch a thing or two that complains she doesn't
> have the latest Adobe P**** O* S*** ... er, flash player ... installed.
>
>   She tried using Synaptic package manager but doesn't see how to upgrade
> what's already installed.
>
>   We'd appreciate pointers to step-by-step instructions on how to get the
> latest flash player installed on her laptop.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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