Adobe not providing linux flash updates

[poma]

On 10.02.2015 21:13, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 08:09 PM, poma wrote:
>> On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote:
>>>> 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 www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date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 version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.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
>>>>
>>> I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and
>>> checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems
>>> that I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and the symlinks to
>>> take effect. On reflection maybe the ldconfig cache was causing issues
>>> as this would have been refreshed with the reboot.
>>>
>> :)
>>
>> # yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>> # yum install flash-plugin
> I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 
> version quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact 
> version as this repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit 

Nope.

32 bit == http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

> versions), but firefox had always said the installed plugin was 310. 
> Indications are the pluginreg.dat was potentially causing this, so it 
> seems that under Fedora that file must be removed every time the plugin 
> version is changed.

Nope.

Try == https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache