[CentOS] Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

Tue Feb 11 12:21:00 UTC 2020
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

James Pearson wrote:
> 
> J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
>>
>> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>>> Once upon a time, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at 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
>>>
>> It's still supported on C7:
>>
>> $ yum list | grep flash
>> flash-plugin.x86_64    32.0.0.314-release     @adobe-linux-x86_64
>> ...
> 
> I think you'll find the latest releases won't run on CentOS 7:
> 
> % ldd libflashplayer.so
> ./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not
> found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)
> 
> and hence Firefox won't load this version ...
> 
> The last version that runs on CentOS 7 is 32.0.0.270
> 
> See: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FP-4199058

Adobe have recently released Flash 32.0.0.330 - which works OK on CentOS 6/7

James Pearson