Good day, last night I downloaded software updates for my new Min t 17.1 install. And before I applied the updates I fell asleep. I noticed I needed them because adobe flash was outdated. A pop up repeated saying it was out of date allow or do not allow... for pages with certain graphics.

My mum was up before me and I may not have installed the downloads. There were two new updates available, which I downloaded and I chose to "Install Updates" and it went well. But the adobe out of date pop up appears. I checked the update history and the lengthy list is there. What could the problem be?

Under what circumstances does the Adobe pop-up appear?

Adobe is no longer supporting Flash for Linux. There have been reports on LQ of the pop-up appearing erroneously, though I use the Flash plugin and have not experienced them myself.

Also (assuming you are using Firefox), what are the contents of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins? That will tell us what plugins, including Flash plugins, you are using.

Maybe you have multiple copies of Flashplayer around. Try 'locate libflashplayer.so' and see if there's a user-level and system-wide install. I got the update message yesterday, and there was 11.2.202.440 available. When you find the file "libflashplayer.so", string's it and see if it's the version it's supposed to be.

Note that newer Firefox uses subdirectory "browser/plugins" while older Firefox and current Seamonkey use "plugins" in the main directory. I'm not sure the locations of other Flash-using browsers, but the 'locate' command would likely find them.