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How do I un-install Flash 64bit Astro when it was manually installed

Asked by jrm453

Ok, I have had good success with Flash 10 64 bit Astro in Ubuntu. It appears that manually installing it was the key. So I thought I'd try to un-install and then reinstall it.... just to be sure I could re-create my success. I have the time so why not? So I deleted it from the usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder but it's still working! Go figure... I couldn't get it to work, now I can't get it to stop!!! (I'm a newbie to Linux so things just aren't that obvious to me yet)

When I open mozilla and do about:plugins, it's still there. I manually removed it from the mozilla/plugin directory and nothing flash related is activated in the package manager so how is this possible? Where else would mozilla be getting this plugin from? I've done a system wide search for mozilla and checked every available folder but I can't find anything. I heard something about a "hidden" mozilla folder. Any chance it's in there?

Considering how multiple flash programs tend to not play well together, maybe this little quirk is one of the things that is causing some of the headaches with flash installation.

Is there a command line that will completely un-install flash when it is manually installed?

But more importantly, how is Mozilla still seeing this plugin if it's not in the plugin directory?

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Best Dmitry Tantsur (divius) said : 		#1

There're several places where plugins can be installed:
/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/iceape/plugins
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/midbrowser/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins

If you've installed it using GDebi, apt-get, dpkg or so (i.e. from .deb package) you can use
sudo aptitude purge {package-name}
where {package-name} is adobe-flashplayer or so.
To find out the exact name of the package use:
aptitude search flash

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Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler) said : 		#2

I have the following additional directories

/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.10/plugins

not sure if they are actually used or only leftover, but no harm to check these as well.

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#3

To remove this plugin simply navigate to the following directory in your /home folder.

:$ cd .mozilla/plugins

Inside you will find 'libflashplayer.so', that is the plugin for flash.

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jrm453 (jrm-mahonstudios) said : 		#4

Thanks Divius, I'll do a manual check for all of the directories you mentioned.