[PLUG] Upgrading Adobe Flashplayer in xUbuntu-10.4

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:

> Just did that for my BigDog wife. If you go to youtube and try to play
> something, you get a message and a link to adobe to download the thing
> from adobe. I downloaded the .tar.gz version, unzipped and untarred it and
> got a libflashplayer.so which I copied to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ or
> similar.

Wayne,

   Yes, she said the site offered various flavors but no .deb and I didn't
know what to suggest. I always get the .tgz (or .tar.gz) when I need to
upgrade.

> My wife is currently doing something on her Slackware disk (good wife) or
...

   Ah, yes, you're a Slackware user, too.

> ... I would confirm the location on her Ubuntu disk. When I get the
> chance, I will check the location where I copied libflashplayer.so. If it
> was different, I'll get back to you.

   I'll have her check with whereis, locate, or find and get the location on
her machine.

Thanks,

Rich