Flashplayer and Linux Mint

So a vulnerability was found on Flash that made Firefox disable the Flashplayer until people updated their plugin.  Adobe released an updated version of the last non-Chrome version of Flashplugin for the update but I seemed to be running into some issues with the browser not picking up the latest version.  So, what I did was re-download the latest version of Adobe flashplayer.  Then, I copied libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and /var/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.  Then, restarted Firefox and checked the add-ons.  Finally the latest version was recognized.  Back to regular programming.

Grabbing the new Hipchat release on Ubuntu

Thanks to Yuri Sklar for the tip!  There is a new hipchat release and it's mighty fast.

First thing's first.  Uninstall the old stuff.  Hipchat uses a generated deb package so you just have to grep for the name and apt-get remove it.  Uninstalling Adobe AIR is as simple as doing: sudo apt-get remove adobeair.

The new Hipchat client can be installed by following the instructions here.

http://www.ubuntukiller.com/2013/04/how-to-install-hipchat-in-ubuntu.html#.UZQAQUAW2Kk

Essentially, it amounts to adding: deb http://downloads.hipchat.com/linux/apt stable main to the apt-get sources and then installing the apt key.

Official Site

Uninstalling Adobe Reader 9 Linux (SH installer)

I found out a tad bit late that Adobe didn't package 64-bit versions of the Reader so my 64-bit Firefox machine couldn't pick up the plugin.  I went ahead and dug up how to uninstall this dumb plugin.  Most of it is in /opt/Adobe/Reader9 which contains most of the stuff, but you might discover that you still have shortcut icons on it especially if you use the Dash Home search.

Check /usr/local/share/applications and your desktop for the AdobeReader.desktop file and purge them.  Then, look for the nppdf.so plugin install paths in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

I didn't find anymore traces after that so you should be fine after.

Firefox and 64-bit Flash

Just a teeny tiny note here.  I realized when I download Firefox from the official website, my 64-bit flash player plugin stop working.  As it turns out, Firefox is giving me 32-bit versions of the browser.

To get the 64-bit versions, check here:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/

Another note is that Flashplayer 11.2 has a bug where nvidia users get inverted colours.  Seems to be related to the hardware acceleration.  Just decided to downgrade instead.