Adobe update for linux mint

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Norman_Castle
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Adobe needs updating for firefox on linux mint pc.

Linux 32 bit. These are the options. What to choose?

APT for Debian/Ubunto

YUM for linux

.tar.gz for linux

.rpm for linux
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  • fenlander_uk
    fenlander_uk Posts: 625 Forumite
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    Have you checked to see whether it's in the update manager? Mine (64-bit) updated itself today with no intervention on my part.
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    Thanks. Just checked and its there.
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
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    Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, so in future you will know to use APT.
    It can also use Ubuntu PPA repositories and can install from .deb files. ;)
  • psychic_teabag
    psychic_teabag Posts: 2,865 Forumite
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    fenlander_uk wrote: »
    Have you checked to see whether it's in the update manager? Mine (64-bit) updated itself today with no intervention on my part.

    What's the mechanism for this ? (Trying to administer a mint system remotely.)

    The adobe-flashplugin package was installed, but AFAIK that just downloads it from adobe. Does that package get rev-ed when flash is updated ?
  • fenlander_uk
    fenlander_uk Posts: 625 Forumite
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    Just hit 'install updates' in the update manager and let Mint do its stuff. Job done - no further action or reboot needed. (This is Linux, not you-know-what...)
  • ThemeOne
    ThemeOne Posts: 1,471 Forumite
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    I thought Adobe no longer supported Linux, and hadn't for some years?
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
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    You can still use Flash on Linux.
    If you install Google Chrome it comes with Flash inbuilt.
    Or if you prefer the open source Chromium you can install Pepper Flash.
    Not sure about Firefox?
  • ThemeOne
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    Sorry, for some reason I thought you were talking about Adobe Reader.
  • psychic_teabag
    psychic_teabag Posts: 2,865 Forumite
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    edited 29 March 2017 at 11:01AM
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    fenlander_uk wrote: »
    Just hit 'install updates' in the update manager and let Mint do its stuff. Job done - no further action or reboot needed. (This is Linux, not you-know-what...)

    Hmm... my understanding was that the mint package is just a utility to download the flash player from adobe's site. So unless the package itself has been rev-ed, mint update tool has no reason to trigger a re-fetch from adobe's site.

    eg http://www.wikihow.com/Upgrade-Adobe-Flash-Player-on-Linux-Mint
    Step 4 points out that this is a one-shot install - to update flash, you need to rerun the downloader, by eg forcibly reconfiguring the package, or by running the downloader explicitly. (It's talking about the pepper version rather than the adobe version, but I assume the principles are the same across the various versions of this utility. On my debian system I seem to be using a package called flashplugin-nonfree, but unfortunately that's currently failing to download from adobe).

    So I'm asking whether (a) something has changed and it does now automatically check for updates from adobe, (b) the package has been rev-ed to force the update manager to upgrade it and hence download a new copy, or (c) something else.

    EDIT: see also https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer which explains why they don't just re v the package each time there's a new adobe release. Though debian's constraints may be different from mint's.
  • fenlander_uk
    fenlander_uk Posts: 625 Forumite
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    My update history lists 'adobe-flashplugin' updated from 1.20170214.1 to 1.20170314.1 on 26th March (if that helps).
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