[GTALUG] Ubuntu need Adobe Flash?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Tim Tisdall wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
> lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > lennartsorensen:~# update-flashplugin-nonfree --status
> > Flash Player version installed on this system  : 11.2.202.425
> > Flash Player version available on upstream site: 11.2.202.425
> > flash-mozilla.so - auto mode
> 
> 
> It seems that Firefox can only use the latest 11.2 version because it's the
> latest available for Linux and no new versions will be made available.
> However, in Chrome I have 16.0.0.235 installed because it comes "built
> in".  So, if Flash is important to you, you may want to switch to using
> Chrome (I'm not sure if Chromium also has this feature, but that may also
> be a possibility).

There is another option:

Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Version: 1.8
Installed-Size: 74
Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm at debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14), libnspr4, libnss3, libpango-1.0-0 | libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils, ca-certificates
Suggests: chromium, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, hal
Conflicts: chromium (<< 37.0.2062.120-4), libflash-mozplugin
Description-en: Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin
 This package will download Chrome from Google, and unpack it to make the
 included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium.  The end user
 license agreement is available at Google.
Description-md5: 308421c13180fc4cf682be0755dca66d
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: contrib/web
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/contrib/p/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/pepperflashplugin-nonfree_1.8_amd64.deb
Size: 10790
MD5sum: d2eeda61df85c2ac3c385fc9673360eb
SHA1: 2020464a97777af44f52104293724c8a635072ea
SHA256: 890af22fe8c272fd272dd2dd28d5623038d8e86a7ca528a8f5e238b93ddc0fb1

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Len Sorensen