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Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.

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Op 23-04-17 om 12:37 schreef Gene Heskett:
> On Sunday 23 April 2017 01:54:21 Frank wrote:
> 
>> Op 23-04-17 om 06:21 schreef Gene Heskett:
>>> And how do you get that 10 year newer flash?  The adobe site doesn't
>>> show me anything newer than the 11.xx.xx.xxx stuff.
>>
>> Really? Both https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and
>> https://get.adobe.com/nl/flashplayer/ definitely show 25.0.0.148 for
>> me.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frank
> 
> After writing that, I did a google search, which gave me a slightly
> different adobe url and that link gave me a tarball of 25.0.0.148.  The
> installation instructions were a bit confusing, so I wound up
> overwriting libflashplayer.so in 5 locations with this newer version.
> Leftovers from previous attempts to arrive at a working 75% of the time
> flash player.  No one, including me, has a clue where the one being used
> actually is.

I usually look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, but the plugin file there 
may actually be a symlink pointing to something in /etc/alternatives, 
which in turn will probably point to some other item somewhere in 
/usr/lib...

Regards,
Frank

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new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-22 18:30 +0200
  Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-22 23:40 +0200
    Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-23 01:00 +0200
  Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 05:30 +0200
    Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-23 06:30 +0200
      Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-04-23 08:00 +0200
        Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-23 12:40 +0200
          Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Frank de Bruijn <frank.de.bruijn@ziggo.nl> - 2017-04-23 15:10 +0200
            Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-04-23 16:00 +0200
            Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-23 19:50 +0200
      Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-04-23 08:10 +0200
      Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-04-23 11:30 +0200
      Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 21:20 +0200
        Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-04-23 21:50 +0200
          Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 00:50 +0200
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              Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 04:00 +0200

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