UPDATE: see post #5. New (and final) version now in repositories.
I have noticed that the Flash player release candidate casues fewer crashes in Rekonq than the player included in adobe-flashplugin. You can manually install the release candidate over the existing package, which essentially involves replacing the binary .so file and a few others by following the steps below.
NOTE: whenever an upgrade or dist-upgrade includes a new adobe-flashplugin, you will have to repeat the steps below.
Browse to the Adobe Labs download page and click the link for the Flash player release candidate. Download the 64-bit or 32-bit Linux plugin, whichever is appropriate for your system's architecture. It lacks an installer, so you'll have to extract and copy the files by hand.
For 64-bit users: Unfortunately, Adobe's 64-bit packaging puts one of the files in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib, so the hand install is a bit different than what they document in the readme.
First, find out where the current Flash binary lives:
After you download the file, follow the appropriate set of steps below for 64-bit or 32-bit systems:
64-bit
32-bit
If you're running KDE installed from the repositories rather than the actual Kubuntu distro, you'll probably need to:
Although it's labeled a dummy package, the System Settings control module for Flash depends on a file that's inside this package. Without it, the module won't load.
I have noticed that the Flash player release candidate casues fewer crashes in Rekonq than the player included in adobe-flashplugin. You can manually install the release candidate over the existing package, which essentially involves replacing the binary .so file and a few others by following the steps below.
NOTE: whenever an upgrade or dist-upgrade includes a new adobe-flashplugin, you will have to repeat the steps below.
Browse to the Adobe Labs download page and click the link for the Flash player release candidate. Download the 64-bit or 32-bit Linux plugin, whichever is appropriate for your system's architecture. It lacks an installer, so you'll have to extract and copy the files by hand.
For 64-bit users: Unfortunately, Adobe's 64-bit packaging puts one of the files in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib, so the hand install is a bit different than what they document in the readme.
First, find out where the current Flash binary lives:
Code:
sudo find / -type f -iname libflashplayer.so
64-bit
Code:
mkdir flash.d tar -zxvf [i]name-of-downloaded-file[/i].tar.gz -C flash.d sudo cp -v flash.d/usr/bin/* /usr/bin sudo cp -v flash.d/usr/lib64/kde4/* /usr/lib/kde4 sudo cp -rv flash.d/usr/share/* /usr/share sudo cp -v flash.d/libflashplayer.so [i]location-of-older-libflashplayer[/i] rm -rv flash.d
Code:
mkdir flash.d tar -zxvf [i]name-of-downloaded-file[/i].tar.gz -C flash.d sudo cp -rv flash.d/usr/* /usr sudo cp -v flash.d/libflashplayer.so [i]location-of-older-libflashplayer[/i] rm -rv flash.d
Code:
sudo apt-get install libkutils4
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