I installed an old version of flash player to keep using flash content until adobe releases a new version that works.
I did this manually since repository doesn't have older versions and I couldn't use Synaptic's force version option.
This is what I did (on Ubuntu Precise 32bit):
* I Downloaded archived package (Flash Player 11.1.102.63 (174 MB)) from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
* I then extracted release version of flash player for 32 bit linux archive and extracted libflashplayer.so from that (readme.txt has documentation for the packages)
* I have flashplayer-installer installed and that places the .so to /usr/lib/flashplayer-installer/ so I backed up that file and copied downloaded version in that folder:
- cd /usr/lib/flashplayer-installer/
- sudo mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so_backup
- sudo cp ~/Downloads/libflashplayer.so .
* Then made sure that both libraries have the same permissions and that the owner is root (they were)
- ls -la
* I had latest version installed elsewhere so flash wasn't working yet. I had to rename libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ so that firefox wasn't using that anymore.
* Flash was working and it reports the earlier version. Next I did a sanity check and flash didn't work with the new library version but works with the old one.
I installed an old version of flash player to keep using flash content until adobe releases a new version that works.
I did this manually since repository doesn't have older versions and I couldn't use Synaptic's force version option.
This is what I did (on Ubuntu Precise 32bit):
* I Downloaded archived package (Flash Player 11.1.102.63 (174 MB)) from http:// helpx.adobe. com/flash- player/ kb/archived- flash-player- versions. html installer installed and that places the .so to /usr/lib/ flashplayer- installer/ so I backed up that file and copied downloaded version in that folder: flashplayer- installer/ so_backup libflashplayer. so . firefox- addons/ plugins/ so that firefox wasn't using that anymore.
* I then extracted release version of flash player for 32 bit linux archive and extracted libflashplayer.so from that (readme.txt has documentation for the packages)
* I have flashplayer-
- cd /usr/lib/
- sudo mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.
- sudo cp ~/Downloads/
* Then made sure that both libraries have the same permissions and that the owner is root (they were)
- ls -la
* I had latest version installed elsewhere so flash wasn't working yet. I had to rename libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/
* Flash was working and it reports the earlier version. Next I did a sanity check and flash didn't work with the new library version but works with the old one.