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

Wed Feb 19 18:03:41 UTC 2020
Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com>

On 2/11/20 5:18 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
>> 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
> Thanks for lettings us know, I already gave up checking as they didn't
> manage to fix it for so many weeks.
>
> Seems they finally found out that upgrading their build hosts to the
> latest greatest distribution was not the smartest idea :-)
>
> Regards,
> Simon

Hi all --

Yes, I too just got an update on Flash 32.0.0.330

pushed to my system. Firefox seems to recognize it as a plugin and it works fine.

Trying to install the plugin provided by Adobe site wasn't successful for me.:-(

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