Adobe Flash Player

[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

I just updated & upgraded LL and noticed that adobe flash player got installed, why is that? Chromium doesn't support it anymore so there's no point in using it.

[Valtam]

EOL is 31 December.

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[Moltke]

EOL is 31 December.

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I know that but even so chromium refuses to use it and why did it get installed in the first place? Now I'll have to remove a package I didn't intend to install, not a big deal, but still...guess is an Ubuntu thing. Thanks for the reply. 

[Valtam]

There's no need for Ubuntu to get rid of adobe flash from the repos until after 31st. As for your particular case, it may have been pulled in as a dependency. Logs will show you this. For more info, please read the 5.2 release in these Forums for how to handle flash manually. Pleased mark the thread as Solved.

[acrome77]

For some reason flash was not included when I installed Linux Lite  am I missing some thing ?

[stevef]

I don't think flash was in the original package.  On my 5.2 machine, it looks like flashplugin-installer first got installed as part of a routine update I ran first thing on 2020-12-09.

Code:

Start-Date: 2020-12-09  06:59:28
Commandline: apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold dist-upgrade -y
Requested-By: stephen (1000)
Upgrade: openssl:amd64 (1.1.1f-1ubuntu2, 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.1), gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0:amd64 (2.40.0+dfsg-3, 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (2.40.0+dfsg-3, 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 (2.40.0+dfsg-3, 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1), libparted2:amd64 (3.3-4, 3.3-4ubuntu0.20.04.1), python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets:amd64 (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.2, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3), flashplugin-installer:amd64 (32.0.0.453ubuntu0.20.04.1, 32.0.0.465ubuntu0.20.04.1), libparted-fs-resize0:amd64 (3.3-4, 3.3-4ubuntu0.20.04.1), parted:amd64 (3.3-4, 3.3-4ubuntu0.20.04.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin:amd64 (2.40.0+dfsg-3, 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common:amd64 (2.40.0+dfsg-3, 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1), aptdaemon-data:amd64 (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.2, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3), python3-aptdaemon:amd64 (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.2, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3), aptdaemon:amd64 (1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.2, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3), linux-firmware:amd64 (1.187.4, 1.187.6), libssl1.1:amd64 (1.1.1f-1ubuntu2, 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.1), libssl1.1:i386 (1.1.1f-1ubuntu2, 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.1)
End-Date: 2020-12-09  07:03:20

I didn't notice it at the time and purged it on December 18 having read Moltke's post.