Hello again. All good now. I followed the instructions in https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ to the letter using yum from root, and all good now. I was missing the PGP key and thus no TOTAL install. "And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK On 1/16/20 2:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > 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, >>