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I've just applied an update flashplugin-nonfree which when I checked in Synaptic updated flashplugin-installer. I checked it out because I wasn't sure at first that it wasn't going to re-install adobe-flashplugin which was removed during the installation of flashplugin-installer as recommended elsewhere.

My question is why is it shown as flashplugin-nonfree in Update Manager, and flashplugin-installer in Synaptic? Is it that flashplugin-installer is just one part of flashplugin-nonfree?

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There is absolutely no difference between the flashplugin-installer and flashplugin-nonfree packages. As @8128 say :

flashplugin-installer is the 'new' name for flashplugin-nonfree. The aim being to more accurately reflect the contents of the package - the package doesn't contain the actual flash player, only an installer that automatically downloads and installs a copy of the plugin. (The file downloaded is the tarball as provided on the Adobe website, but in this case the file is mirrored on Canonical servers.)

The reasons you still see flashplugin-nonfree in Synaptic is for backwards compatibility. It is a transitional metapackage with no actual content, all it does is depends on and install flashplugin-installer.

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Liso
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There is no flashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu repositories.

If you see it, it means you are not using Ubuntu, or you installed some custom PPA.

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