Adobe not providing linux flash updates

[poma]

On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>> On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>> www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date
>>>> with security risks so it won't display any video news.  Go and update your
>>>> flash player.
>>>>
>>>> On this F21 system I am using:
>>>>
>>>> adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
>>>>
>>>> which has in it:
>>>>
>>>> baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
>>>>
>>>> yum.log shows:
>>>>
>>>> Jan 19 18:08:31 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-release.x86_64
>>>> Jan 26 08:51:24 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.440-release.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> So supposedly I am current to Jan 26.  But cnn is not a happy camper.  There
>>>> have been a couple other sites complaining as well. Even one that said my
>>>> version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Go to about:plugins in Firefox, if the displayed version of Adobe
>>> Flash isn't *.440, try deleting
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/pluginreg.dat and refresh
>>> about:plugins or restart Firefox.
>>>
>>> I've hit a similar issue recently on a different website.
>>>
>> I just installed the 64 bit rpm for version 442 of flash I
>> downloaded from Adobe's website, put a symlink into
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the upstream version of 64 bit firefox
>> looks for its plugins in /usr/lib) to where the rpm placed the
>> plugin, remove pluginreg.dat, started firefox and issued
>> about:plugins which firefox says it is picking up from
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it says the version is 11.2.202.310
>> still, why is this occurring?
>  
> Seems likely that SOMEWHERE there is still a copy of the old version
> that FF is finding instead of the one you want.
> 
> 
> 

$ grep -A1 /libflashplayer.so pluginreg.dat