Adobe Flash Player Auto Updater

[Geoffrey]

Regarding the updater, I know it still works without this step, but do you think it would be a good idea for the script to

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chown root:root libflashplayer.so

at some point?

Done, implemented chown root:root, re-uploaded Auto Updater version 1.6 with this change, the 5 or so people who downloaded it, if you like re-download.

[sfs]

For pepperflash. Change path 4 your libpepflashplayer.so in OS

[Mike Walsh]

SFS, you've excelled yourself, man!! (Again...)

I run ALL my Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Chromium, SlimJet & Iron) from a remote partition, sym-linked into each of 8 different Pups in the appropriate locations; I have one folder for 32-bit, and another folder for 64-bit. Each of these folders also has a PepperFlash folder, sym-linked into the browsers where they expect to find it.

I've modified your script to produce two copies, one for each architecture's 'path' to the appropriate folder, and have made them executable (Right-click->Properties->Click on the top executable check-box->Refresh->OK). I've now placed the appropriate copy of your script in each Pup @ /root/Startup, so that the updater will run automatically at boot.

This is what I've really wanted for I don't know how long..!

Many, many thanks.

BTW: For anybody else who might be interested, I'm going to do a thread, linking to your post (and giving you the credit, of course..!!) I shall also explain how to set it to run automatically.

This, along with Geoff's version, will all help to make Pup that much easier for newbies.

Bal'shoye spaseeba! (Probably got that wrong... )


Mike.

[Mike Walsh]

Hiya, Geoff.

As a previous poster put it, 'I hate to be the bearer of bad news....again'

I've a sneaking suspicion 1.6 has got a bug in it. Just used it to update Flash in a brand-new install of Tahr64.....and it gave me the 32-bit version. So PaleMoon wasn't detecting it, and said 'Not Installed'.

When I was using 1.5 in my main install of Tahr64, it always detected the right version of Flash that was required. 1.6 isn't doing this.....and in fact, looking at the script, it appears to be set for 'i386' ONLY.

Or does it need to have an existing version of Flash to compare to, before updating for the first time?


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

Hiya, Geoff.

As a previous poster put it, 'I hate to be the bearer of bad news....again'

I've a sneaking suspicion 1.6 has got a bug in it. Just used it to update Flash in a brand-new install of Tahr64.....and it gave me the 32-bit version. So PaleMoon wasn't detecting it, and said 'Not Installed'.

When I was using 1.5 in my main install of Tahr64, it always detected the right version of Flash that was required. 1.6 isn't doing this.....and in fact, looking at the script, it appears to be set for 'i386' ONLY.

Or does it need to have an existing version of Flash to compare to, before updating for the first time?


Mike.

Yeah Mike, it 32 bit only, it should work without there being a flash version installed, I do find it hangs for a few minutes in X-Tahr, I think it's wget that's the problem, I was going to see about doing a 64bit update, but as I don't use 64bit so haven't found the enthusiasm to do so.

[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