A GREAT MYSTERY! See inline...
On 1/16/20 1:00 PM, me@tdiehl.org wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Steve Clark wrote:
On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Kay Schenk kay.schenk@gmail.com said:
I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was obsolete so I went in search of an update.
Adobe stopped releasing Flash for Linux a while back. IIRC the only "supported" Flash on Linux is distributed as a part of Google Chrome (and that's going away sometime soon too, Chrome on all platforms will no longer support Flash).
Don't know about C7 but I just yum updated my C6 system. adobe-linux-x86_64 | 2.9 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.255-release will be updated ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.314-release will be an update --> Finished Dependency Resolution
And on Centos 7:
(tigger pts2) $ rpm -qi flash-plugin Name : flash-plugin Version : 32.0.0.314 Release : release Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Tue 14 Jan 2020 05:27:19 AM EST Group : Applications/Internet Size : 21472196 License : Commercial Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 16 Dec 2019 06:38:35 PM EST, Key ID 3a69bd24f6777c67 Source RPM : flash-plugin-32.0.0.314-release.src.rpm Build Date : Mon 16 Dec 2019 06:38:30 PM EST Build Host : sj1010005204073.corp.adobe.com Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : Adobe Systems Inc. Vendor : Adobe Systems Inc. URL : http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ Summary : Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Description : Adobe Flash Plugin 32.0.0.314
See if the following helps:
(tigger pts2) $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo [adobe-linux-x86_64] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
This did indeed help. The Adobe repo appears in my update list. I install NPAPI version. All LOOKS good at that point from the gnome software app gpk-application. I look at what's been installed etc.
Then, as soon as I leave this environment, and get back into the Software app, flash is no longer installed! I wish I was joking about this but I've done this 3 times and I'm not going to do it again. :(
I see that some Adobe entries in Firefox's current blocklist.xml. But...what is going on here? Are we absoluting FORBIDDEN in any way from using Flash? Any insights?
Regards,