Re: [tlug] Flash Player V8.0 xpti.dat .......

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:35:19PM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> I just updated to Flash Player 8,0 and it installed with no problem, but
> it gave this recommendation:
> 
> NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
>       components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.
> 
> I've been poking around in the .Mozilla directory, but haven't found
> that.  Sorry for the stupid question, but does anyone know where that
> is and why it needs to be removed?

Sometimes, these things can be confusing.  Of course, if whoever wrote
that had taken .5 seconds to write the typical full path, it would be
less confusing.  Sigh, it's what I call a binary message, that is, not
really human readable, especially for something like flash which is a
desktop application. 

In fairness, it might be in different places on different systems, but
still, the chances are it will be one of a few places.

On my FreeBSD box it's in /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/components.

Are you familiar with the locate and find commands?

The locate command uses a database and is very quick--on a system that
is on all the time, usually there is a cron job that will update this
database.  In most Linux distributions, you can run the command updatedb
which will take a little while (you have to be root or have root
privilege) then type locate <whatever> and get the answer immediately.

Other times, the find command might be more suitable.  The command in
this case would be, again as root or with root privilege

find / -name "xpti.dat"

It takes longer, but will sometimes find things that locate misses.  


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