Debian
pepperflashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #1632870
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 1632870

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote :

I read the ubuntu-devel thread and agree with everything you said. Thanks for trying to solve that issue at installation level.

As a side note about that thread: AFAIK, flashplugin-installer (NPAPI 11.2, src:flashplugin-nonfree) comes from Debian too, just like pepperflashplugin-nonfree (PPAPI, src:pepperflashplugin-nonfree), and they have the same Debian maintainer (Bart Martens), and the same update mechanism on Debian (sudo update-update-[pepper]flashplugin-nonfree --install).

https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer

So that's all the more surprising that the first one has been heavily modified for Ubuntu (plugin actually downloaded from partner behind the scene, and package version bumped with Flash updates) while the second one hasn't (only small details if I understand the changelog correctly).

In case that helps now or in the future: I have some notes about Flash plugins and wrapper that I read and update everytime I have to setup a new computer (which happens quite frequently). Without this memo I'd be lost in the maze of similarly-named Flash packages:

https://gist.github.com/nathanael-naeri/0ba3d8aba09743221d76142e896ab2c0