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i've made the mistake of installing firefox flash plugin, which is horribly buggy, unstable and leaky. I need to banish this piece of rubbish out of my precious ubuntu workstation. I tried this by doing

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer

but that just removes the installer, not the library

what package do i need to remove to completely uninstall this?

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  • try going to tools>add-ons and disable the shockwave flash plugin
    – user17414
    May 16, 2011 at 0:33
  • amusingly enough, there is none, there is just "Ubuntu firefox modifications 0.9rc2"
    – lurscher
    May 16, 2011 at 0:42
  • that's because you are in the add-ons section, it is in the plugins section
    – user17414
    May 16, 2011 at 2:08
  • sorry, still, it shows nothing on the 'plugins in use'
    – lurscher
    May 16, 2011 at 2:54

1 Answer 1

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I just looked in the pre processing scripts of flashplugin-installer, and it appears to remove the libraries correctly. Ifflashplugin-installer is still installed you can look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.prerm. to confirm it.

Otherwise, you can run the commands manually:

VARIANTS="iceape iceweasel mozilla firefox xulrunner midbrowser xulrunner-addons"
sudo update-rc.d -f flashplugin-installer remove >/dev/null 2>&1
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer-unpackdir
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/*
sudo rm -f /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/*
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/flashplugin-installer-unpackdir
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/flashplugin-installer
sudo rm -f /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/share/ubufox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
for p in $VARIANTS; do
sudo update-alternatives --quiet --remove "$p-flashplugin" /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so;
done
for p in $VARIANTS; do
sudo update-alternatives --quiet --remove "$p-flashplugin" /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so;
done
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  • +1 thanks for the pointer. As of the date of this comment, the mechanism in .../flashplugin-installer.prerm has changed much from your pasted version, but has the same effect.
    – msw
    Jun 13, 2013 at 21:24

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