05-04-2012
Coming from a UNIX engineering perspective:
If your software ever tried to update other packages in this way, I would uninstall it, create an incident, and bring my legal team together to get you sued out of existence.
You handle YOUR software. You manage your own paths, and bring your own stuff to the party. If you update components on another person's system, you risk breaking it, and costing them a tremendous amount of money and pain.
That will translate into YOUR pain. Don't do it.
Manage your software, not theirs.
What you should do, is follow current best practices:
Create an installer that VERIFIES the minimum versions of software as provided by the OS. You can do that with apt, rpm, yum, whatever. When your vetting is done, you then issue message to the console, or via a log, etc that the system has been verified and may continue, and the installer continues, or that they are missing the per-requisites, and list them. By NO means should you go and get them. That is asking for trouble. You are a vendor, not a systems administrator.
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update-flashplugin-nonfree
UPDATE-FLASHPLUGIN-NONFREE(8) System Manager's Manual UPDATE-FLASHPLUGIN-NONFREE(8)
NAME
update-flashplugin-nonfree - program to get the newest Adobe Flash Player
SYNOPSIS
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
update-flashplugin-nonfree --uninstall
DESCRIPTION
The program update-flashplugin-nonfree takes care of downloading last minute information from Debian about suitable versions, removing the
installed Adobe Flash Plugin if it has been reported as insecure, or, if a newer suitable version is available, downloading a newer Adobe
Flash Player and its installer from the Adobe download site, run the downloaded installer to install the Adobe Flash Player on the local
system, and then move the installed files to where they fit on a Debian system.
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OPTIONS
--install
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--uninstall
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--verbose
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--quiet
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SEE ALSO
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
If you subscribe to this wiki page, then you will receive updates via e-mail.
http://www.adobe.com/
The Adobe homepage.
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