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Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 3541 Location: World_Hub

Good, what I wanted to hear. When you're ready for 12.12, just give us a shout out..

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 817 Location: London, England

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 3541 Location: World_Hub

Oscar, mine list the same, through all the upgrades I've ever done. Needless to say, FP runs fine.

That Sheldon too had *eventual* success, could you pass along the permissions on your file?

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 817 Location: London, England

Hello Semme,
As you say it does still run OK. All I can tell you is that if you download the Flash Player files from Adobe (not sure what happens if you use Get Flash) they come through as something like "Owner, Group : 501, guest" if you look at Properties.

What I do is assemble the files I want including the preferences utility, desktop file and icon(s) in a directory eg "flashplayer11-11.2.202.261" and then just

chown -R root:root flashplayer11-11.2.202.261

so that all the files to be installed (manually or via a .pet) are then owned by root.

The permissions of libflashplayer.so downloaded from Adobe seem to be Owner=rw Group=rw World=r

The ldd command that you mentioned produces a warning that execute permission is not set so I have set those but I really don't know if any execute permissions are needed or advisable with this file or other shared libs. Most other shared libs seem to have them set for Owner, Group and World.

Terryphi · Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2013, 12:08 Post_subject:

I believe that the latest version of GetFlash automatically corrects the permissions after the download from Adobe.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 3541 Location: World_Hub

Thanks for the feedback guys. I figure it doesn't matter much on a box run by root. It hasn't caused any problems, so no need to address it, other than, maybe what Terry mentioned.. GetFlash handling the auto. Pretty much the same reason I figured it wasn't the issue Sheldon was facing..

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1077

Spanish locale updated

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 527 Location: UK

Hi shinobar,

Please note that the above has ceased to function. It would seem that the server address has changed?

Terryphi · Posted: Sun 06 Oct 2013, 10:40 Post_subject:

I have checked by attempting a manual download. It appears that there is currently a coding error at the Adobe site. When the correct file is selected in the drop-down options the server tries to serve the wrong file ( APT for Ubuntu instead of tar.gz for other Linux.)

Hopefully Adobe will realize soon that they have messed up and sort it out.

Terryphi · Posted: Mon 07 Oct 2013, 06:06 Post_subject:

This link is working for the current release of Flashplayer (11.2.202.310):

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.310/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

As you can see it specifies a version number directory. Not very helpful for anyone creating an automated updater! However, you can identify the latest version number at this other location:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 4083 Location: Earth

On this Adobe site for download, I see this:

Terryphi

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 527 Location: UK

Hi Terryphi,

I agree that Adobe have fouled up but they have also changed the URL which will mean a revised version of getflash is needed. To restore functionality I commented out line 14 and added a new line 15.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 08 Oct 2013, 01:50 Post_subject:

Nice work, ETP. Yes, your revised URL works for me too.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2587 Location: Japan

# v1.3 - 8 Oct 2013: change adobe url (ETP), forum URL by OscarTalks
getflash-1.3.pet
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/