Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

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On 02/10/2015 08:09 PM, poma wrote:
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www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date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version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.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
I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 version quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact version as this repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit versions), but firefox had always said the installed plugin was 310. Indications are the pluginreg.dat was potentially causing this, so it seems that under Fedora that file must be removed every time the plugin version is changed.


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