[How-to]Remove adobe-flashplugin

chaanakya · 2011-03-26 21:59:28

So one day, for some reason I don't remember, I tried to remove the package adobe-flashplugin. However, there were some nasty errors which caused dpkg hell. I gave up for the time being. Then, a few days ago, I needed to do the same thing again because I wanted to use flashplugin-nonfree instead, and I don't see the point of having more than one installed at the same time. However, it again gave me some errors with update-alternatives. No matter what I tried to do, like force it or reinstall it, it failed epically. Then, I figured it out. Here are the steps.

1) Install an alternate flash plugin, like gnash or flashplugin-nonfree

2) This is the crucial step! If you did not see lines like

update-alternatives blah...blah

when installing the package, you will need to do this. Run

update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/[browser]/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so [browser]-flashplugin /path/to/new/flash/plugin 10

replacing [browser] with iceape, iceweasel, mozilla, firefox, xulrunner, midbrowser, and xulrunner-addons.

3) You should now be able to uninstall adobe-flashplugin normally!

Jojan · 2011-03-26 23:26:09

I tried to remove it a while ago, and found that this link: http://blog.ixti.ru/archives/6

And as it says there "The problem is that this package was built ONLY for Ubuntu.", so when you ask for it to be removed it first tries to do things that is only possible to do in Ubuntu. So an alternative to chaanakya's guide (which I have not tried) would be the in the link I provided.

I hope they will fix this issue.

Last edited by Jojan (2011-03-26 23:26:32)

chaanakya · 2011-03-27 00:10:51

I actually tried that, but it didn't work (for me) - Anonymous posted the same thing when I asked for help.

Last edited by chaanakya (2011-03-27 00:11:24)

DB_Cooper · 2011-03-27 21:47:49

Parallel thread here:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ashplugin/

chaanakya · 2011-03-27 21:49:53

haha I know - it's my thread lol big_smile I asked Anonymous if I could repost and he said yes, so I did

MrPink · 2011-07-01 11:20:29

# mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm-DISABLED

This was enough to make it work for me. It's from the bottom of the blog Jojan links to.

octavian · 2011-07-17 18:24:10

chaanakya wrote:

...
when installing the package, you will need to do this. Run
update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/[browser]/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so [browser]-flashplugin /path/to/new/flash/plugin 10
replacing [browser] with iceape, iceweasel, mozilla, firefox, xulrunner, midbrowser, and xulrunner-addons.
...

What about non Mozilla browsers like Chrome or Chromium? I'm concerned since I use Chromium as my only and default web browser.

(BTW I also posted this query on the other parallel post. I hope this is not a problem but for enrichment purposes)

Thanks for your help!

chaanakya · 2011-07-17 20:48:42

I'm not exactly sure how Chromium/Chrome determines the default flashplugin, but if you don't have those programs installed, you should be fine regarding removing adobe-flashplugin.

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