Can somebody explain this?
orinoco@womble:~$ sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Passwort for orinoco:
Flash Player version installed on this system : 21.0.0.242
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 21.0.0.216
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ says "22.0.0.192". Yesterday I updated to this version.
Nevertheless
# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 22.0.0.192
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 21.0.0.216
strange. But the current version was available to me.
C
I don't use pepper atm so might be wrong, but there seem to ne to different issues to answer here. First is regarding cas' version .192, as one can read in Debian Wiki about PepperFlash] (https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer) :
Quote"... Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player. Adobe currently still provides security fixes for Adobe Flash Player. Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. ..."
So it seems as cas has manually installed Adobe Flash, not Google Pepper Flash. Correct me if wrong. ???
Next, the maintainer of flash stuff in Debian is sometimes a little behind, have seen the same stuff with too old keys in update-flashplugin-nonfree taking several time to update them (search forum for examples). In the code of pepperflashplugin-nonfree source (https://sources.debian.net/src/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/1.8.2%2Bnmu1/update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree/) it seems as if the comparison between installed and available is just a look in a text file at https://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/ , and the file latest-unstable.txt there is dated from 27th of april and contains "21.0.0.216".
As I said, I don't understand in detail how that stuff all works, but if you need current packages or get confusing information about installed/available, then you should file a bug against pepperflashplugin-nonfree (https://packages.debian.org/sid/pepperflashplugin-nonfree)
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Edit: just seen, that has been done already: #827129 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827129)
Quote from: der_bud on 2016/06/21, 12:50:03
So it seems as cas has manually installed Adobe Flash, not Google Pepper Flash. Correct me if wrong. ???
pepper didn't work correctly in FF, so I installed both.
flash works in FF, pepper in chromium.
# update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.621
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.626
flash-mozilla.so - manual mode
link best version is /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so
link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
link flash-mozilla.so is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so
/usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so - priority 70
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50
# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 22.0.0.192
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 21.0.0.216
Quote from: der_bud on 2016/06/21, 12:50:03
First is regarding cas' version .192,
22.0.0.192
PS: wanted to color this already in my first posting. But this does not work inside code-boxes.
C
new flash just arrived
# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 22.0.0.192
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 21.0.0.216
# update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
Flash Player version installed on this system : 11.2.202.626
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.626
flash-mozilla.so - manual mode
link best version is /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so
link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
link flash-mozilla.so is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so
/usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so - priority 70
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50
Quote from: orinoco on 2016/06/20, 19:04:06
Can somebody explain this?
did you try to update?
Quote from: cas on 2016/06/21, 22:30:11
did you try to update?
No, because I was confused.
For some reason, the maintainer (Bart Martens) hasn't been updating his site lately to reflect newer versions. He was nice enough to write back to me and assure me that we can get the latest version using '--unverified --unstable' option, even if the --status reports an older version. That does indeed seem to work for me as I now have the latest version, 22.0.0.209, despite status saying latest available is 21.0.0.232:
# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status --unverified --unstable
Flash Player version installed on this system : 22.0.0.209
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 21.0.0.232