Idea #8681: Add package for new Adobe Flash 10 beta

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Written by swegner the 16 May 08 at 17:22. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea

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Adobe released a beta version of their Flash 10 plugin, and it's available from their website here:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_lin ux_051508.tar.gz

Since the current flash-nonfree package is already relatively unstable (esp. on AMD64), we should consider packing a flash-nonfree-10beta for this early release. Of course, the beta shouldn't replace the current version, but the option should be available.

The package should conflict with flash-nonfree so the two aren't installed simultaneously, and should do the work of automatically fetching the latest beta from Adobe.

Manual install instructions and other details here:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/05/16/test-drive-flash-player-10-beta-in-ubu ntu/

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swegner wrote on the 16 May 08 at 17:27

Sorry about the broken links in the description.. is there any way to avoid that? Does HTML work here?

loonyphoenix wrote on the 16 May 08 at 18:05

simply remove the spaces for the html to work :)

swegner wrote on the 16 May 08 at 18:29

@loonyphoenix: Yeah, it looks like the spaces are automatically inserted by the editor to wrap lines. They don't appear when I go to edit the post.

loonyphoenix wrote on the 17 May 08 at 12:32

Did you just post the links or did you use html?

If you just posted the links, try this without spaces after < and before > (I had to add them, otherwise you'd see a broken link instead of a way to create them):

< a href="http://link.here" > Link name here < /a >

schnauzer93 wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 01:36

good idea. I kept getting crashes whenever Firefox encountered Flash content, and this fixes it.

mgunes (Ubuntu Developer) wrote on the 16 Jul 08 at 01:59

It's now in hardy-backports. Please use the procedure described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports to request backports, and read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for information on the kinds of updates possible in a stable release. Backport and package requests are not within the scope of Brainstorm.

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