Adobe debug flash-player 10 needs newer glibc

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Hi all,

I'm trying to install the latest debug flashplayer available here:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz

linked from this page

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

I follow the embedded instructions and this is the error:


root@vostro-ubuntu:~# /home/berrie/work/download/install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
[: 258: closing paren expected

ERROR: Your glibc library is older than 2.3.
Please update your glibc library.

root@vostro-ubuntu:~# aptitude search glibc
p eglibc-source - Embedded GNU C Library: sources
v glibc-2.10-1 -
p glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation
v glibc-doc-reference -
v glibc-pic -
root@vostro-ubuntu:~#

I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it is up to date.

Could it be that the flash installer parses the version number wrong as previously it was glibc-2.9-1, a '9' after the dot, now there is a '1'.

Seems daft. Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,

BB

[sylvester_0]

My google-fu is strong. See the link below.

http://rahulsinghai.blogspot.com/2009/12/install-flash-player-10-debugger-verion.html

P.S. Any reason why you haven't upgraded to Lucid yet?

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Thanks Sylvester, this did the trick:

Line 73 from:

ICONVVER=`echo "$ICONV" | awk '{print $4}'`

to:

ICONVVER=`echo "$ICONV" | awk '{print $3}'`

Tis an appalling bit of coding that function, just imagine when glibc version 3.0 hits the shelves...

BB

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About Lucid: can't risk the downtime at the moment. I'll do it when I have more time.

BB