What is the difference between the mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin-installer packages?
1) Is the former simply Mint's way of getting the flash plugin into the nonstandard Mint directory, /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/, for the flashplugin?
2) Is the version of the flash plugin that mint-flashplugin-x64 installs the one that the Mint developers have determined to be the most functional and stable for Mint?
3) If the answer to 2) is yes, can the version of libflashplayer.so installed by min-flashplugin-x64 into /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/ be replaced by the latest version of released by Adobe or would be installed by flashplugin-installer? For instance, the latest version of mint-flashplugin-x64 is 10.0.32.18-mint1, the latest version of flashplugin-installer is 10.0.45.2ubuntu0.9, and adobe has released 10..1 beta 3.
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Difference between mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin?
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constanthatz
Difference between mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin?
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piratesmack
Re: Difference between mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin?
Hi, welcome to the Linux Mint forums.
Looks like mint-flashplugin-x64 is an actual packaging of the 64-Bit flash plugin, and flashplugin-installer is a script that downloads the 32-Bit flashplayer from adobe.com and uses nspluginwrapper to make it work on 64-Bit.
The reason the Mint team hasn't packaged 10.1 is probably because it is still a beta. It should be safe to replace libflashplayer.so with the latest one; you can just reinstall mint-flashplugin-x64 if it's too buggy or unstable.
Looks like mint-flashplugin-x64 is an actual packaging of the 64-Bit flash plugin, and flashplugin-installer is a script that downloads the 32-Bit flashplayer from adobe.com and uses nspluginwrapper to make it work on 64-Bit.
The reason the Mint team hasn't packaged 10.1 is probably because it is still a beta. It should be safe to replace libflashplayer.so with the latest one; you can just reinstall mint-flashplugin-x64 if it's too buggy or unstable.
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olzak
Re: Difference between mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin?
It is not beta anymore. When are you going to update mint-flashplugin-x64 to version 10.1?piratesmack wrote:Hi, welcome to the Linux Mint forums.
Looks like mint-flashplugin-x64 is an actual packaging of the 64-Bit flash plugin, and flashplugin-installer is a script that downloads the 32-Bit flashplayer from adobe.com and uses nspluginwrapper to make it work on 64-Bit.
The reason the Mint team hasn't packaged 10.1 is probably because it is still a beta. It should be safe to replace libflashplayer.so with the latest one; you can just reinstall mint-flashplugin-x64 if it's too buggy or unstable.
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vincent
Re: Difference between mint-flashplugin-x64 and flashplugin?
Never (for now), because Adobe has cut off support for their 64-bit Flash releases ever since 10.1 was introduced. If you want 64-bit Flash, you're stuck with 10.0.45. If you'd like to complain, feel free to send a few letters to Adobe or something (probably won't get a reply thougholzak wrote:It is not beta anymore. When are you going to update mint-flashplugin-x64 to version 10.1?piratesmack wrote:Hi, welcome to the Linux Mint forums.
Looks like mint-flashplugin-x64 is an actual packaging of the 64-Bit flash plugin, and flashplugin-installer is a script that downloads the 32-Bit flashplayer from adobe.com and uses nspluginwrapper to make it work on 64-Bit.
The reason the Mint team hasn't packaged 10.1 is probably because it is still a beta. It should be safe to replace libflashplayer.so with the latest one; you can just reinstall mint-flashplugin-x64 if it's too buggy or unstable.
).Edit: Link: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flas ... 64bit.html