I have what, to me, seems a very strange affair.
Some days ago I was fiddling about on my No 2 machine, which is really just a standby for when management is using the one in the dining room for her Marjong and emails etc.
I was surprised that the picture quality was quite a bit better than on the No.1 machine. So I checked the Mozilla add-ons and found that the Adobe flash plugin on No.2 machine was version 10.0.1.42.
This morning I had a look at No.1 machine and it was still running Adobe flash plugin ver.9.**** something, so I removed it by “apt-get remove” and then downloaded a the latest deb offering from the Adobe site.
On trying to install it I was informed a later version already existed on the machine!!
So I went and looked in the Synaptic package manager, and sure enough that seemed to confirm this assertion. This was odd because the Shockwave entry had been erased from the Mozilla add-ons list in Firefox..
I did a total uninstall of the Adobe flash plugin 10.**** via the Synaptic package manager and then went and downloaded the latest deb from the Adobe site.
Once again I was told a later version already existed on the machine!!
A file search turned up a deb for Adobe flash plugin version 10.042.34.2 in var/cache/apt/archive.
I remember downloading an Adobe flash plugin 10 package some time ago and then finding out that there had been some “issues” with Ubuntu 8.04 and I had not bothered with it. How it got into this location is a mystery.
So the problem is what to do to get Adobe flash plugin back on the scene again. If I just move the package in var/cache/apt/archive into the deleted folder will the installation of a new package be accepted? Or is the file in var/cache/apt/archive just a red herring and something else is causing the problem?.
I would be very happy receive any thoughts on this that might be relevant.