Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

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On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote:
>> On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>> On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>>>> On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date
>>>>>> with security risks so it won't display any video news.  Go and update your
>>>>>> flash player.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On this F21 system I am using:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
>>>>>>
>>>>>> which has in it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yum.log shows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jan 19 18:08:31 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-release.x86_64
>>>>>> Jan 26 08:51:24 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.440-release.x86_64
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So supposedly I am current to Jan 26.  But cnn is not a happy camper.  There
>>>>>> have been a couple other sites complaining as well. Even one that said my
>>>>>> version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Go to about:plugins in Firefox, if the displayed version of Adobe
>>>>> Flash isn't *.440, try deleting
>>>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/pluginreg.dat and refresh
>>>>> about:plugins or restart Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've hit a similar issue recently on a different website.
>>>>>
>>>> I just installed the 64 bit rpm for version 442 of flash I
>>>> downloaded from Adobe's website, put a symlink into
>>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the upstream version of 64 bit firefox
>>>> looks for its plugins in /usr/lib) to where the rpm placed the
>>>> plugin, remove pluginreg.dat, started firefox and issued
>>>> about:plugins which firefox says it is picking up from
>>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it says the version is 11.2.202.310
>>>> still, why is this occurring?
>>>   
>>> Seems likely that SOMEWHERE there is still a copy of the old version
>>> that FF is finding instead of the one you want.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> $ grep -A1 /libflashplayer.so pluginreg.dat
>>
> I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and 
> checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems 
> that I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and the symlinks to 
> take effect. On reflection maybe the ldconfig cache was causing issues 
> as this would have been refreshed with the reboot.
> 

:)

# yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# yum install flash-plugin


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