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

Thu Jan 16 22:45:50 UTC 2020
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

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

James Pearson