Uninstallin Flashplayer?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Uninstallin Flashplayer?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 7:27 PM
> On 11/30/2008 12:25 PM, Daniel T Chen wrote:
> > On 11/30/2008 03:01 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >> "flashplayer". I can easily remove
> flashplugin-nonfree but what about 
> >> the flashplayer that the plugin installed.
> That's what I can't find 
> >> and what Adobe's message is all about. Sorry
> for my ignorance.
> >>
> >> Leonard Chatagnier
> >> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > The flashplugin-nonfree package only downloads and
> installs the Flash 
> > plugin for Web browsers.  It does not install any
> standalone ("heavy" or 
> > "thick") application.  In fact, on Ubuntu,
> the "Flash Player" to which 
> > the Adobe instructions refer is this plugin.
> > 
> 
> In addition, I would do a:
> 
> sudo updatedb
> locate libflashplayer.so
> 
> Note: updatedb is to ensure that any new installs are
> detected on the
> 'locate' as updatedb is only updated every 24 hours
> otherwise.
> 
> Then do an md5sum on each to ensure that they match. If
> they do not,
> replace any older with the new one (rename the old one in
> case you want
> to fall back & copy the new one to it's place).
> 
> So, if you find something like:
> 
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> 
> Do an md5sum on both:
> 
> md5sum
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> md5sum /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> 
> and compare.
> 
> 
Thanks Gary,
I did find one file not with the right libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree which I fixed. I admit I didn't use md5sums to check all the .so files and just used ls -al.  All had the same file size except the one above. The new 64 bit flash player is working great now. Go get it, 64 bit users.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net