Comment 53 for bug 173890

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selivanow (selivanow) wrote : Re: [Bug 173890] Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

On Dec 12, 2007 11:23 PM, Tom Shaw <email address hidden> wrote:

> working systems. Mike Melanson of Adobe seems very receptive on mailing
> lists so perhaps he could be contacted by the maintainer and help to get
> a working copy of the flash plugin hosted by Adobe to allow the original
> package to work again?
>

This would be good, except that Adobe doesn't officially support
anything but r115 and are unlikely to host r48 separately.
What we could do is change the installer to download the entire
fp9_archive.zip file and pull the r48 file from that. I know that
the file is ~65MB but it is a solution that would work. Just don't do
an md5sum on the entire archive since it is likely to change.
(You could use zip to check the integrity of the archive)

Another possibility would be to ask Adobe for an exception to the
distribution clause in the license.....

BTW-

Looking at http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ it appears that r115 is
the final release for flash 9 update 3.

-Chris