On 20140116_101618, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 ian 14, 19:06:12, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Query: Wouldn't apt-get update and upgrade do the same > > thing, if there were a new security update? And if you have > > the nonfree repo enabled, of course. > > apt-get only understands package (as in .deb) versions, so if a newer > flashplugin-nonfree package is available for you it will be installed. > It is then up to the package to update the plugin as well (which I > believe it does). > > Kind regards, > Andrei
I don't understand the exact workings of the flash player install process, but ... After reading earlier posts in this thread, I ran --status and discovered that I was running a version of flash player that was two digits behind the most recent Adobe for Linux version. I did have the most recent version of the flashplugin-nonfree package, but I had not recently run update-flashplugin-nonfree, which is the name of the actual executable program installed by the package named flashplugin-nonfree. Or perhaps there is some other, more accurate explanation, but my impression was that a new version was downloaded from Adobe web site only after I ran a program with a different name, not downloaded automatically. I think I may have upgraded, which is all the user must do for almost all packages to be installed, but flash player is special and needs a special non-automatic step. YMMV -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140116163627.gb10...@big.lan.gnu
