[CentOS] Flash player beta

Thu Sep 22 13:27:11 UTC 2016
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net
> wrote:

>
> > Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:36:57 +0100
> > From: isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com>
> >
> > Has anyone tried the new flash player beta for Linux?
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html
> >
> > I can't get it to work on CentOS 6.8, ff 45.3.0-1, all x86_64. ff's
> > pluginreg.dat shows the plugin is [INVALID], which is often a sign
> > of bitness-mismatch, but that's not the case here.
> >
> > $ tail -n 3 pluginreg.dat
> > [INVALID]
> > /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so:$
> > 1474541270000:$
> > $ file /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> > /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared
> > object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped $
> > strings /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so | grep
> > FlashPlayer_23 FlashPlayer_23_0_0_179_FlashPlayer
> > $ rpm -q firefox
> > firefox-45.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> > $
> >
> > I have it working on a different Linux system, not CentOS, with ff
> > 48.0.1.
> >
>
> I've been using it -- currently ..._179 -- (sparingly) on a -7
> machine with the default (firefox-45.3.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64) ff.
>
>
Looks like it's compiled against a later version of glibc:

> ldd libflashplayer.so | grep "not found"
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `./libflashplayer.so'
./libflashplayer.so: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15'
not found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)
./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found
(required by ./libflashplayer.so)
./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found
(required by ./libflashplayer.so)


-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu