Ubuntu 12.04 hanging very frequently

[Ric Moore]

On 03/04/2013 05:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 4 March 2013 10:23, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> How did you install it?
>>
>> I installed it from the following Adobe website
>> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
>>
>> At the website, once I chose the appropriate operating system, it asked, how
>> would I like to open it. I chose Ubuntu Software Centre and installed that
>> way,
>
> The disadvantage of doing it that way, I think, is that you will not
> automatically get updates.  Installing it from the Ubuntu repository
> will automatically get updates.  I don't know what the best thing to
> do now is though.  In your situation I think I would uninstall the one
> you installed manually and then, in the software centre, search for
> Adobe and install the Adobe flashplugin there.  I am not a flash
> expert however so there may be a better solution to your problem.
>
> Colin
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> Sanjib Sikder
>> Ph.D. Fellow
>> Chemical Engineering
>> IIT Bombay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3 March 2013 17:30, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 since it was released without any issue
>>>> but
>>>> it is hanging very frequently since the last week. I have observed that
>>>> since the last update of my Ubuntu, there was an issue with adobe flash
>>>> plug
>>>> in. A message popped up on every new start of the system that it failed
>>>> to
>>>> install adobe flash. I installed it manually.

Installing anything as complex as that from outside the repos is not 
usually considered a "good thing to do". Especially when there is a 
flash installer that works quite nicely and has practically zero 
complaints about it. It auto-updates itself, with regards to 
improvements and security fixes, so going around this "feature" may not 
work in your best interests.

In fact, it wasn't that long ago in the Linux scheme of things, that if 
you went outside of the usual order of things, you were bluntly told you 
did it, you broke it, you keep both pieces. Heh, I guess we've evolved 
past that.

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