Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater

[Subito Piano]

Geoffery -- THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!

Phil -- very thoughtful of you to put that in Tahr.

Pale Moon was frustrating me -- no more!

[mgolden]

Geoffrey,

This updater seems to have broken with the latest version of flash.

I'm seeing:

"Adobe Flash update has already started...
New Version 24.0.0.221"

[Geoffrey]

Geoffrey,

This updater seems to have broken with the latest version of flash.

I'm seeing:

"Adobe Flash update has already started...
New Version 24.0.0.221"

Yeah, it seems "awk" isn't finding the version string in libflashplayer.so, Adobe must of changed something, so I have gone back to using "busybox strings", that fixed it.

It now only looks for new versions at adobe.com/software/flash/about, that sped things up as it was hanging for a long time for me at get.adobe.com/flashplayer.

Updated to update_flash-1.7, see first post

PS remove /root/.flash_update if it still exist before running the new one.

[mgolden]

Yeah, it seems "awk" isn't finding the version string in libflashplayer.so, Adobe must of changed something, so I have gone back to using "busybox strings", that fixed it.

It now only looks for new versions at adobe.com/software/flash/about, that sped things up as it was hanging for a long time for me at get.adobe.com/flashplayer.

Updated to update_flash-1.7, see first post

PS remove /root/.flash_update if it still exist before running the new one.

Thank you kind sir!

[bigpup]

Geoffrey,

Thanks for keeping up with the constant movement of where you get Flash player!

It seems to be a full time job!!!

[sfs]

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INSTALLED_VERSION="`sed -n '/LNX /s/.*LNX \([0-9,]\+\).*/\1/p' "$pf" | tr -dc 0-9, | sed 's/,/./g'`"

[Mike Walsh]

Hiya, Geoff.

This must be getting boring, fast.

Any ideas what's causing this?




It's been doing this for several weeks now, so I've simply reverted to using the old, manual method of GetFlash-1.7. Which is a shame, 'cos this has always been a really neat utility (when it condescends to behave itself...)


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

Hiya, Geoff.

This must be getting boring, fast.

Any ideas what's causing this?




It's been doing this for several weeks now, so I've simply reverted to using the old, manual method of GetFlash-1.7. Which is a shame, 'cos this has always been a really neat utility (when it condescends to behave itself...)


Mike.

I've been without net, I'll have a look when I get the chance Mike

[Mike Walsh]

Righty-ho, Geoff.

I'll leave it with you. As & when, mate.

Glad to hear you're back with us..!


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

Ok Mike I had a look, Adobe changed the About page, so grep wasn't finding the version number.

Easy fix, edit line 109 in /usr/bin/update_flash, change grep -A2 Linux to grep -A3 Linux.

make sure you delete the ~/.flash_update folder if it exists before running the script.

tell me if that fixes it for you as I have no idea how you got



If it's a goer I'll update the package.

[Mike Walsh]

Hiya, Geoff.

Easy fix, edit line 109 in /usr/bin/update_flash, change grep -A2 Linux to grep -A3 Linux.

make sure you delete the ~/.flash_update folder if it exists before running the script.

tell me if that fixes it for you...

Flamin' Adobe..! I wonder if they'll ever get tired of playing 'musical URLs'?

I'm running a slightly adapted version of your Auto-Updater; I've modified the target path to point to my remote data partition, from where I run all my browsers, sym-linked into all my Pups so I only run one instance of each.....using davids45's method.

I've got a single instance of PepperFlash linked into all the Chromium-based browsers.....so I figured it'd make just as much sense to have a single instance of FlashPlayer, sym-linked into every Pup at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, for the Mozilla-based ones, too.

Which works nicely.

I keep Pepper updated with a slightly adapted version of the modification sfs made to your original script, so's it'll work for Pepper:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 162#913162

And it works beautifully.

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Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I've substituted

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grep -A3

...for

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grep -A2

.....deleted /root/.flash_update, re-run Menu->Internet->Update Flash, and she's behaving herself again. (For the moment... )

So, go ahead and re-publish. Sorry to have put you through all that again...! (At least it's working once more.....for the time being.)

Thanks, Geoff. It's very much appreciated. I may be a wee bit 'sloppy' with some stuff in Pup.....but Flash is one thing I am strict about (and running around 10 Pups, it's a nightmare keeping on top of them all manually!) Automating it makes one less thing to worry about...


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

Fixed Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater, see first post for new package version 1.8

[EdD]

Fixed Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater, see first post for new package version 1.8

removed the version on my slacko 6.3.0 and installed the new one. The 'download flashplayer update' pane stays empty, and no download starts. Sorry to say, it ain't working for me.

[Geoffrey]

Fixed Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater, see first post for new package version 1.8

removed the version on my slacko 6.3.0 and installed the new one. The 'download flashplayer update' pane stays empty, and no download starts. Sorry to say, it ain't working for me.

The directory /root/.update_flash is most likely still in existence from the previous failed attempt, delete it and then it should work

[Bird Dog]

I'm having problems updating Geoffrey's flash on my 32 bit computer. The update works great on my 64 bit computer (version 26.0.0.131). When I try to update on my 32 bit computer it says adobe flash update has already started. New Version for YUM for Linux.tar.gz for Linux.rpm for Linux. I click resume which is all I can do and it says download flash player update please wait but nothing happens. I also tried deleting the directory through the pfind program and uninstalled everything that said flash update and tried reinstalling like you mentioned above but still no joy.
I now have an older version of flash than what I started with. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Bird Dog

[Geoffrey]

it says adobe flash update has already started. New Version for YUM for Linux.tar.gz for Linux.rpm for Linux.

Sounds like you have what Mike Walsh experienced, download and install the latest version update_flash-1.8.pet from the first post,
make sure you delete the ~/.flash_update directory before running the updater.
I just tested the 1.8 version to be sure it's still working, worked fine.

[Bird Dog]

Hi Geoffrey I tried deleting anything that had flash update while using pfind but some of the directories wouldn't delete, probably the ones that needed to be. Anyway that gave me an excuse to try Tahrpup 606 and then when I installed your flash update it worked fine. Thanks for your help.

Thanks
Bird Dog

[autumnleaves]

I have been labouring to get a working version of Tahrpup64 6.06 onto a machine, and after multiple reinstall and a couple of major issues, overcome with the help of forum members, I installed the updater (1. so that I would no longer have to see the no flashplayer warning. It seemed to work well, so I set it to run on boot. But when I did a reboot, my mouse pad/keyboard (USB remote) were frozen. I discovered that unplugging and replugging the USB key restored mousepad function, but I still have no keyboard. Has anyone seen this before, and is it due to something the flashplayer updater may have changed?
Thanks for your assistance.

[Geoffrey]

@autumnleaves,

The option for it to check at startup only creates a symbolic link in ~/Startup to the /usr/bin/update_flash.

This shouldn't affect your usb ports, there must be another problem.

This updater only downloads the 32bit version of flash, Getflashplayer might be a better option as it caters for 64bit http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 815#960815

[autumnleaves]

Thank you for your reply, I wonder if the xorg.conf file might be affected. On the first reboot the Nvidia driver lost settings, but on a subsequent reboot correct resolution was restored.