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

Thu Jan 16 22:40:51 UTC 2020
Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com>

A GREAT MYSTERY! See inline...


On 1/16/20 1:00 PM, me at 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 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
>
> 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,
>