[ubuntu-za] SOLVED: Re: www.sterkinekor.com site (Flash) no longer loads in updated Ubuntu 11.10

[Chris Schoonbee]

On 09/03/2012 13:03, Tom Bamford wrote:
> On 9 March 2012 12:57, Chris Schoonbee <cmschoonbee at mweb.co.za 
> <mailto:cmschoonbee at mweb.co.za>> wrote:
>
>
>     For interest's sake I would still like to rule out an update to
>     gnash (assuming I have been using it for more than 8 days) so I
>     need to figure out how to find out a package's version install
>     history.  Any hints on how I could find out when a particular
>     package was installed?
>
>
> Hi Chris
>
> Well spotted. The logs in /var/log/apt/* and /var/log/alternatives.log 
> should give you some installation history.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
Hi Tom,

Thanks for that hint.  I looked around those log files (discovered 
zgrep) and it seems that it was the configuration done by an update on 6 
March (in /var/log/apt/history.log) involving chromium, 
flash-plugin-installer etc that created a lot of activity in the 
/var/log/alternatives.log file at the same time.  Cannot quite make 
sense of it but I am assuming that it ended up pointing to the 
previously installed gnash (which from other apt logs I see was 
installed on 21/10/2011 with no package updates since then) instead of 
flash.

Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of that and learning something new.

Regards,
Chris
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