topic title: [SOLVED] Can no longer upgrade pepperflash plugin?
Posts: 119
wildstar84
Joined: 31 May 2014
#1
root$>update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status

gives me:

E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
Flash Player version installed on this system : 20.0.0.228
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 22.0.0.209

root$>update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install --unverified --verbose

now gives me:

temporary directory: /tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.R6abv14Zs3
doing apt-get update on google repository
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
E: No packages found
downloading
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/latest-stable.txt"
linktext was:"http://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperf ... stable.txt"
====================================

selected action = --install
..dpkg-deb -x unpackchrome
dpkg-deb: error: --extract needs a target directory.
Perhaps you should be using dpkg --install ?

Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages.

Is there any way to upgrade pepper on a 32bit pae system or are we now just SOL?!

Thanks

Jim
Last edited by wildstar84 on 26 Aug 2016, 22:51, edited 2 times in total.
Posts: 88
kmathern
Joined: 25 Aug 2012
#2
wildstar84 wrote:...Is there any way to upgrade pepper on a 32bit pae system or are we now just SOL?!

Thanks

Jim
Back on Mar. 1st Google dropped the 32bit Chrome package which also provided the 32bit pepperflash.

It's now available as a standalone download here:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/"
linktext was:"https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/"
====================================


Select"Linux (32-bit)" and"FP 22.0 for other Linux 32-bit (.tar.gz)-PPAPI"
Posts: 119
wildstar84
Joined: 31 May 2014
#3
Thank you, kmathern! That seems to work! I downloaded untarred, and got:

libpepflashplayer.so
manifest.json
README
LGPL/
LGPL/notice.txt
LGPL/LGPL.txt

I searched for libpepflashplayer.so and found it in /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/
I then renamed (saved) and replaced libpepflashplayer.so and manifest.json there with the new ones, restarted Firefox, went to
about:config. It said I still have the old version (20.0.0.228), and"
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/"
linktext was:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/"
====================================
" also says 20.0.0.228 ("up to date"), but when I went to:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html"
linktext was:"https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html"
====================================
, it says I now have the new (and"latest") one (22.0.0.209)! I have browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash package installed from apt-get and it sets the"plugin file" shown in about:plugins to: /usr/lib/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so, so maybe it's confused somehow, maybe?

Regards,

Jim
Posts: 88
kmathern
Joined: 25 Aug 2012
#4
I see the samething with about:plugins or about:addons reporting the wrong flash version. For example right now I have the 22.0.0.209 version installed but about:addons shows it as 22.0.0.192.

According to /usr/share/doc/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/known-issues.md, it's a known issue

Code: Select all

$ grep '## Flash version is incorrect' /usr/share/doc/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash/known-issues.md -A8
## Flash version is incorrect

For example, 13.1.2.3. PepperFlash have its version separated from
binary, it's stored in a file named `manifest.json`. Make sure you
have up-to-date `manifest.json` near `libpepflashplayer.so`. It's
worth to note this version is used only for plugin listing in
browser. Various version detection scripts on the web will acquire
correct version from Flash internals.