Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.unit0.net!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Gene Heskett Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Sun Apr 23 17:41:44 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.999 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.001, URI_TRY_3LD=0.001, WEIRD_PORT=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 X-Asg-Debug-ID: 1492969285-097fa229171a84220001-KlT975 X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: gheskett@shentel.net X-Barracuda-Rbl-Trusted-Forwarder: 204.111.2.17 X-Barracuda-Effective-Source-IP: n64s149.fttx.shentel.net[204.111.64.149] X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 204.111.64.149 X-Barracuda-Rbl-IP: 204.111.64.149 X-Asg-Orig-Subj: Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today. User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) X-Kmail-Quoteprefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Barracuda-Connect: smtp1.edbg.cloud.shentel.net[204.111.2.17] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1492969285 X-Barracuda-URL: https://204.111.1.147:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1661 X-Barracuda-Brts-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.50 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.50 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=6.0 tests=WEIRD_PORT X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.38295 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.50 WEIRD_PORT URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/720038 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/201704231341.24735.gheskett@shentel.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 41 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:41:24 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <201704231341.24735.gheskett@shentel.net> X-Original-References: <201704221224.32435.gheskett@shentel.net> <201704230637.38003.gheskett@shentel.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:180420 On Sunday 23 April 2017 07:35:36 Frank de Bruijn wrote: > 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 The link in /etc/alternatives points at the new version in /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so So I think I'm ok. Thank you for reminding me about alternatives. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page