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

From Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net today.
Date 2017-04-23 19:50 +0200
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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
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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
            Re: new firefox for wheezy last night, can't do squat on the net  today. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-24 02:40 +0200
              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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