Flash plugin auto update

[L_V]

It should be quite fast.
Each time I came here to inform an update issue, http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/ is updated few days after.
But, this is not a solution.

[L_V]

Each time I came here to inform an update issue, http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/ is updated few days after.

As I said: done.

[L_V]

Flash update: still a mystery / V 11.2.202.460 unknown @ people.debian.org/~bartm/

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update-flashplugin-nonfree  --install 

Flash Player version installed on this system  : 11.2.202.457
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.460

https://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/D5C0FC14/fp.11.2.202.460.sha512.i386.pgp.asc => NOT FOUND

[stevepusser]

The Ubuntu partner packages will install safely:

http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/poo ... ashplugin/

I tried to get permission from Adobe to rebuild those packages and host them in the community repository, but was rejected, apparently because I'm not some corporation.

Anyway, kmathern contributed this simple command to update the binary directly from Adobe when the Debian server is lagging like it is right now. I'm not sure how to integrate it into a cron job...

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su -c 'wget -qO- http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/%3Finstaller=Flash_Player_11.2_for_other_Linux_%28.tar.gz%29_$(dpkg --print-architecture | sed "s/i386/32/;s/amd64/64/")-bit%26standalone=1 | grep location.href | cut -f2 -d "$(echo -ne \\x27)" | cut -f7 -d\"|xargs wget -qO- | tar -C /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ --overwrite -xzf- libflashplayer.so && chown root:root /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so'
	

[L_V]

What is amazing is that I've been using for years my own script to get Flash directly from Adobe (I spent quite some time on that).
And one day, I wondered why I was not "simply" using flashplugin-nonfree.
flashplugin-nonfree update managed by crontab is clearly not reliable at all.

Using adobe-flashplugin package from ubuntu partner ??? Humm..... Looks like a bit ugly in an official stable Debian release, but ... why not...., but adding ubuntu partner repository is a must to get updates from ubuntu repository
=> risk of mixing other ubuntu/debian packages => I don't like so much.

Don't understand how "normal" Debian users are managing Flash updates.....

By the way, your command line works fine, but is more a workaround than a real solution ! (especially in a "Beginners Questions" section).

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Don't understand how "normal" Debian users are managing Flash updates.....

FWIW, Mrs. Head_on_a_Stick plays Flash games every day in her Debian jessie system using Chromium and pepperflashplugin-nonfree -- this seems to work just fine

[L_V]

I am not really in favour of choosing a browser because of Adobe update facility.
Chromium is much too gogole for me.
After unpacking Chromium, 147 MB will be used (!!).
But what kind of garbage gogole needs to make a browser...., especially compared to Qupzilla which needs 5 MB ...

Well, back to the root ... with a script to manage updates directly from Adobe.

@stevepusser
I guess you spent quite some time to fine-tune your command line to get flash from Adobe.... (assuming you made it).

Thanks.

[aplistir]

What is amazing is that I've been using for years my own script to get Flash directly from Adobe (I spent quite some time on that).

Have you made your script available somewhere?
I would like to have a look

[L_V]

I have purged some extra features, but something like:

!! for i386 only because fits my need !! / easy to modify

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INSTFL="install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz"
LIBFL="/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so"

[ -e $LIBFL ] && VCUR=$(strings $LIBFL | grep LNX | sed -e 's/LNX //g ; s/,/./g') || VCUR="none"
VNEW=$(curl -s http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ |grep -A2 "Linux" |tail -n1 |tr -d ' </td>\r')

echo "Flash Player version installed on this system  :" $VCUR
echo "Flash Player version available on upstream site:" $VNEW

if [ "$VNEW" != "$VCUR" ];  then
  wget -N http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/$VNEW/$INSTFL
  tar xf $INSTFL -C /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ libflashplayer.so
fi

Surely not perfect, but worked like a charm for years !

[aplistir]

Thanks for the script,
Will read it and try it out.

[stevepusser]

@stevepusser
I guess you spent quite some time to fine-tune your command line to get flash from Adobe.... (assuming you made it).

No, I did credit kmathern, who seems to whip those things out as easily as swimming comes to fish. I just copied it from a thread on another forum where the delay in the Debian server was being discussed.

Qupzilla is much smaller than Chrome and Chromium because they both use internal customized webkit engines, but Qupzilla uses either libqtwebkit for Qt 4, or Qt 5's webkit engine if it's built against that.

[L_V]

@stevepusser
Chromium (147 MB) is about 3 times the size of a complete OS like Slitaz which fits in a 40 MB iso.
Qupzilla (5 MB) depends on libqtwebkit4 which installed size is 37 MB, and other necessary libqt4 libraries are common KDE base dependencies.

Why a Chromium browser supposed to be "light" really needs a 147 MB installation (even not including the impressive list of other dependencies) ?
I don't trust a so tremendously faaaat program which embeds a part of gogole mystery.
But this is off topic.

Thanks for the script / Will read it and try it out.

To make it compatible for 32/64 bits, this small update should work.
note: strings command needs binutils package to be installed

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#!/bin/bash
# can be launched from root crontab @weekly
INSTFP="install_flash_player_11_linux.$(dpkg --print-architecture).tar.gz"
LIBFP="/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so"

[ -f $LIBFP ] && VCUR=$(strings $LIBFP | grep LNX | sed -e 's/LNX //g ; s/,/./g') || VCUR="none"
VNEW=$(curl -s http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ |grep -A2 "Linux" |tail -n1 |tr -d ' </td>\r')

echo "Flash Player version installed on this system  :" $VCUR
echo "Flash Player version available on upstream site:" $VNEW

# option: cd /tmp
if [ "$VNEW" != "$VCUR" ]; then
  wget -p https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/$VNEW/$INSTFP
  tar xf $INSTFP -C /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ libflashplayer.so --overwrite
fi