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creek23
May 17th, 2010, 11:47 PM
I fresh installed Lynx (and I'm sure of it) on VirtualBox and I really can't remember installing Adobe Flash Player.

I accidentally browsed a site with an interesting ads/banner. It's animating as if it's a Flash banner. I thought, "HTML5 is damn good!". Just to test it out, I right clicked the banner and boom -- it stated, "About Adobe Flash Player 10". :confused:

So I was baffled. Did Ubuntu 10.4 auto-installed Flash via update? or was it installed by default from the CD (mounted ISO in my case)?!?

I have no problem if it was installed via update. Problem is if it was on CD.

Could someone verify this?
killer_d76
May 18th, 2010, 03:38 AM
based on my experience after I installed 10.04 I opened Youtube and it was requesting me to install Flash... so I installed Ubuntu-restricted-extras thru synaptics or you could simply do "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" thru terminal and that fixed the issue ;)
howefield
May 18th, 2010, 03:47 AM
Did Ubuntu 10.4 auto-installed Flash via update?

No.

You have to install flash deliberately, if you installed the restricted-extras package, then that would have installed flash.
wersdaluv
May 18th, 2010, 04:17 AM
no
Script Warlock
May 18th, 2010, 06:59 AM
no
dodimar
May 18th, 2010, 06:56 PM
and another 'NO'..
creek23
May 18th, 2010, 11:23 PM
and so I thought. A colleague said he installed it when he checked my PC to see what's new with 10.4.

...session hijacker, he is!
dodimar
May 19th, 2010, 07:01 PM
and so I thought. A colleague said he installed it when he checked my PC to see what's new with 10.4.

...session hijacker, he is!

How does he had access to install applications on "your" pc? that means he knows the password for your login.
creek23
May 20th, 2010, 12:36 AM
How does he had access to install applications on "your" pc? that means he knows the password for your login.

Huh? It's basically on my PC, but it's more on my VirtualBox installation -- as stated on my first post. We all share password for virtual installations which we use for testing our games.