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Screenshot of Update Manager

I have, recently, noticed permission errors when installing updates to Adobe Flash. Are these serious? Is my Flash installation fully up to date? How can I check?

TRiG
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    So the warning in your output is not too bad and didn't affect the update you installed. Anyway, you can check the exact version of Flash your browser is running by visiting https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/ - there you also see which version is the latest for each OS. – Byte Commander Mar 04 '18 at 22:50
  • The warning messages do not block FlashPlayer update. It is known bug 1522675, after long discussion with developers it is fixed. Please wait some hours or one-two days. – N0rbert Mar 05 '18 at 07:01
  • Hmm, @ByteCommander, it is a duplicate, but the accepted answer there says to take some actions which, by my reading, are no longer necessary, as the underlying bug has been fixed. Am I reading that wrong? – TRiG Mar 05 '18 at 15:54
  • Dunno, I think changing the ownership of that directory to _apt would not hurt. I don't know whether there was a related fix or not. The issue is not critical, as stuff still works, but it might be a minor security problem if apt downloads these files as root instead of the unprivileged _apt user... – Byte Commander Mar 05 '18 at 16:12
  • @ByteCommander. I've just checked. It's already owned by apt:root with permissions drwx------ as suggested. So something somewhere must have already made those changes for me. – TRiG Mar 05 '18 at 16:21
  • I think it should be _apt instead of apt. Was that a typo? – Byte Commander Mar 05 '18 at 17:53
  • My typo, indeed, @ByteC. It is _apt. – TRiG Mar 05 '18 at 18:49

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