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[Don_Nadie]

Puppy 5.2.8 update 5 installed on Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit laptop via Lin'n'Win

I searched the forum for "Adobe AND Flash" as well as "Flash plugin" and got no results worth mentioning.

There have been two new updates for Adobe Flash released one right after the other recently. I don't understand at all how Puppy users can use the internet and not encounter web sites that require the latest version of Flash, because when I do, I get a nastygram saying that I have to install the latest version of Flash. Trouble is, that's around ten trillion times more difficult in Linux than it is in Windows and is the sort of thing that keeps me using lumbering, bloated, resource-hogging Windows as my primary OS.

After much searching of the internet, I found a Firefox add-on called Flash-Aid at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/?src=ss I got this to work in Kubuntu 12.04 which I just downloaded and installed because Flash-Aid was able to figure out where a root level console program is in Kubuntu.

In Puppy, I tried to feed Flash-Aid the following as the location of my console program in/usr/bin:

console
xconsole
lxterminal
ROXTerminal

and none of them satisfied Flash-Aid. I may have some of them wrong because I'm doing this in Windows, where you don't have to jump through a gazillion flaming hoops to install the latest Flash update.

I also downloaded some file or other from Adobe that's supposed to be the update for Ubuntu-based Linuxes. Since I'm in Windows right now, I can't see it inside the 3fs save file, but it's supposed to be a Debian package manager file, I think.

I can't figure out where to install it because when I search for Flash with Pfind in Puppy, I get two different folders with flash in their path names.

Anyway, this is long enough. Is there some easy way to keep Flash plugins up to date in Puppy?

[nilsonmorales]

te recomiendo que envies mas datos por ejemplo la version de puppy y firefox que estas usando
recuerda que puedes encontrar soporte en el chat de irc en los canales #puppylinux y #puppy-es

[Terryphi]

See this thread:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77257

[Makoto]

There's a bug in the forum software that sometimes blanks out a post when it doesn't like (?) a URL set in it. (It seems to be blank, but if you reply to and quote the post, it'll appear in the quote.)
Note that, however, the closing URL tag in your post was \URL rather than /URL.

There were at least one or two scripts/installers others on the forum have created that will automatically download and decompress the Flash plugin to the proper place(s) for you... though I don't remember what or where they are.

[Semme]

Ah, Makoto.. YOU ARE CORRECT! I've seen this before but forgot to look deep enough to check Dons quote! Good deal..

[mahaju]

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/libflashplayer
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72557

[bigpup]

Install this program
Getflash
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491
(make sure to download the 0.9 version)
After installing Getflash.
Run from menu->Internet->Getflash install flash player
This program will find the latest version of Flash Player and install.

[Don_Nadie]

Thanks to everyone who posted. Entering just one backslash '\' in a post apparently can have disastrous consequences. I edited my original post so everyone can read it now. Arigatoo Makoto-san.

Bigpup's advice to install Getflash worked for me. Since Adobe Flash is still all over the internet, maybe there should be some way to make this known to Puppy noobs.

[Flash]

I cleaned up the thread so it would make sense to a newcomer.