New Flash-Plugins available

[jure]

update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv

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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

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Flash Player version installed on this system  : 19.0.0.245
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 19.0.0.245

[seasons]

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/

[hschn]

Hello,

do

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apt-get install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

so you dont need flashplayer anymore

greetings

hschn

[jaegermeister]

Great to know!
THX

[mylo]

Hi all,

how to purge the old one or is a concurrent installation and usage possible?

[horo]

Parallel installation is possible, the newest version (=highest version number) will be used.

Ciao, Martin

[jaegermeister]

I purged

[DeepDayze]

This may or may not be related but have a problem getting the latest pepperflash:

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~$ 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?

[Carnophage]

Looks like new apt feature :/

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763874
&&

Under the hood:

   
• privilege dropping in the acquire methods

[jdhedden]

Another issue is that the Chrome repository URL:
https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/
is returning a 404 error.

[DeepDayze]

Another issue is that the Chrome repository URL:
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?

[sunrat]

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

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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. 

[DeepDayze]

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

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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.

[sunrat]

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.

[jure]

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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

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update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree -iv
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ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google ......