Le 17/01/2014 05:11, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Jo, 16 ian 14, 09:58:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> I am using the flashplugin from Debian's nonfree repo. If there are >>> any security updates for it from Adobe shouldn't those updates >>> ultimately end up in the repo just like all other nonfree stuff? Or >>> would the security updates end up in some backport repo, since it >>> would be coming from a newer, non-Linux version of Flash? >>> >>> As far as I can tell, I have the latest version not only from the >>> repo, but according to Adobe as well: 11.2.202 >> >> You are missing the fact that the flashplugin-nonfree package doesn't >> actually contain the plugin. The "package" is actually only a >> downloading script executed on package install[1]. So the only way to >> trigger an update would be to bump the package version, which has to >> be done by the maintainer. > > I was unaware of this. I thought it was the plugin. I have since read > the the Debian Flash wiki and see my error. Of course, the Debian way > of installing/updating Flash is a lot easier than Fedora's which I > switched from middle of last year after using Core and Fedora for a > number of years: You have to do it 100% manually.
yum install flash-plugin Is it what you call "100% manually" -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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