CrunchBang Linux

CBizgreat!

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 1,271

Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Put it off for quite awhile, cause am overdue for borkage. Plus I despise the adobe flashplayer ... ( DIE adobe flashplayer ! DIE !   ) Recently decided it was time to upgrade to a newer version. Managed it ok ... So why not another babbling how to on the topic, shrugs.

Credit mostly goes to El_koraco though ... see this thread. Mainly posting for posterity, case other folks come looking for the info etc. In this case it's the last release of crunchbang 32bit adobe flashplayer, not the more recent one. Though see no reason it wouldn't apply to future versions too. May want to give this thread a looksee if for 64bit.

1st things ... errrr, well 1st.

Noticed I had to comment out ( Put one of these> # ) in front of the statler repo in /etc/apt/sources.list to get newer software packages to install. Then open a terminal and ...

sudo apt-get update

Statler repos taking priority is what I think caused me probs when I tried doing the following before. Why I think it failed to work ... blah.

Next off, we install the sucker. Open terminal and type ...

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Then to update that sucker in future.

sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install --verbose

Between all these threads and this attempt to simplify things for future users. Someone should be able to take adobe's curse well in hand and bend it to their/your will ... Any clarifications, useful additions etc are always welcome of course. Anything I may've missed or gotten wrong ... so forth.

                                                                                                                                             VLL ! (CB)

PS, Afterthought babbling ... stuff about apt, apt-pinning blahblahblah. See ... Apt babbling.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-02-01 10:32:42)

---

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,646

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

There's no more need to do anything special for 64 bit Flash. Since version 11, there's a native 64 bit version for Linux, that gets installed with flashplugin-nonfree.

CBizgreat!

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 1,271

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Thanks El ...

Wasn't sure, so didn't want to act like I was. So the clarification is appreciated El_koraco ... It's back to the mines I go. Happy computing peeps.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-27 18:58:03)

---

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

VastOne

#! Ranger

From: #! Fringe Division

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 9,739

Website

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

The only reason to still use it manually is so that you can get the latest version at any given time, should there be a need.

I updated mine manually because the flashplugin-nonfree version at the time was buggy on my nVidia rigs

---

VSIDO
If you build it, they will come...
Words That Build Or Destroy

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,646

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

The only reason to still use it manually is so that you can get the latest version at any given time, should there be a need.

The same happens when you run update-fpnf. It downloads the latest tarball from Adobe. It used to be that Flash on 64 bit systems was the 32 bit version via nspluginwrapper, and people were downloading the beta 64 bit from Adobe Labs.

VastOne

#! Ranger

From: #! Fringe Division

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 9,739

Website

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

Thanks for that El_K, I was not aware of this..

---

VSIDO
If you build it, they will come...
Words That Build Or Destroy

phoenix

New Member

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 9

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

what??!!

updating like that does NOT WORK.

sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install --verbose

that does not work.

bad command or file name...

now, how do i update flash?!

----------UPDATE:--------------
duh. i thought i already had it installed, because flash was like, working or whatever, for some things. so i guess the update code DOES work.. but not independently.

Last edited by phoenix (2012-05-07 22:33:40)

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: PRC

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,219

Website

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

^ Probably html5 worked

---

Start Distrohopping here! -> Roast your own |  VSIDO | LinuxCNC | AntiX | Frugalware |  <-

CBizgreat!

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 1,271

Re: Update adobe flashplayer in Crunchbang ...

^ What he said/typed ...

Have done it meself on #!, no reason shouldn't work. Check for typos I guess.

---

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)