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Siduction Forum => Upgrade Warnings => Topic started by: jure on 2015/11/19, 19:14:21
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update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv
Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.548
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.548
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree -iv
Flash Player version installed on this system : 19.0.0.245
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 19.0.0.245
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Just so you know, they've been out since last Tueday (Nov. 10). These are the links I use to stay informed:
https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
https://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/
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Hello,
do
apt-get install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
so you dont need flashplayer anymore
greetings
hschn
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Great to know!
THX
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Hi all,
how to purge the old one or is a concurrent installation and usage possible?
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Parallel installation is possible, the newest version (=highest version number) will be used.
Ciao, Martin
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I purged
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This may or may not be related but have a problem getting the latest pepperflash:
~$ sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file './var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
Is this related to the new apt or is there a problem on google's end?
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Looks like new apt feature :/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763874 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763874)
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Under the hood:
- privilege dropping in the acquire methods
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Another issue is that the Chrome repository URL:
https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ (https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/)
is returning a 404 error.
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Another issue is that the Chrome repository URL:
https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ (https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/)
is returning a 404 error.
Think the repo may have been changed. Anyone have an idea what the new repo is now?
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Interesting. I just installed Chrome a couple of days ago and it put a file /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome symlinked to /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome. The repo line in that file is
REPOCONFIG="deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
SSLREPOCONFIG="deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
I'm getting 404 trying direct access now but it installed fine a couple days ago. Maybe temporary?
There is no google.list in /apt/sources.list.d/ as there was last time I installed maybe a year ago. ???
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Interesting. I just installed Chrome a couple of days ago and it put a file /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome symlinked to /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome. The repo line in that file is REPOCONFIG="deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
SSLREPOCONFIG="deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
I'm getting 404 trying direct access now but it installed fine a couple days ago. Maybe temporary?
There is no google.list in /apt/sources.list.d/ as there was last time I installed maybe a year ago. ???
I suspect Google no longer allows direct access to the repo and I don't get it what caused the pepperflash updater to break. For now I just grab the Chrome deb and extract the pepperflash plugin manually.
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Just my opinion but I don't see the point of pepperflash. Happy to be enlightened though. If you run Chromium to have a totally FOSS system I understand, but if you add a non-free plugin you may as well just run Chrome. Which is what I do for sites that need it although Iceweasel is still my main browser.
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update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.554
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.554
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree appears to be broken https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=pepperflashplugin-nonfree (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=pepperflashplugin-nonfree)
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree -iv
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ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google ......
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You can work around the issue with pepperflash by adding the one-line patch shown in in: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769740
Like another commenter in that bug, I don't understand why the bug is marked as won'tfix, or what people who use the script are supposed to do.
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thanks seasons
adding the line
APT::Sandbox::User "root";
works and pepperflashplugin is now
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 20.0.0.228
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 20.0.0.228
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Confirmed the problem and the fix.
root@Hibiscus:/# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 20.0.0.228
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 20.0.0.228
Thanks seasons!
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You folks are welcome (though the thanks should really go to Bart Martens, who does an excellent job with the script).
It looks like the wontfix was either an error or that Bart has changed his mind, because he has applied the patch and there is a new version of the package (1.8.2) incoming.
Doing a general dist-upgrade is not a good idea right now though, because of the perl 5.22 transition: http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5941.0
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... and there is a new version of the package (1.8.2) incoming.
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where can we observe what is in "incoming" ?
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'incoming' is not a repo (like experimental). I just meant that a new version had been uploaded and will be available once the mirrors sync. https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/news/20151217T233918Z.html
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'incoming' is not a repo (like experimental).
That's not true. Since a few months incoming is a repo as you can read here:
http://incoming.debian.org/
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Awesome! That's good to know. Thanks, towo.