Adobe not providing linux flash updates

[Stephen Morris]

On 02/11/2015 06:32 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 10.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote:
>
>> 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 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.
> If you really need flash:
>
> Remove all flash .rpm's you previously installed. Donwload the .tar.gz from
> Adobe. Copy libflashplayer.so from the archive to ~/.mozilla/plugins. Restart
> Firefox. You're done.
>
> Update? Just do the same as described.
I had the 440 version of flash rpm installed (I originally had the 310 
version installed) and downloaded the 442 version of the rpm from Adobe, 
which installs the plugin into /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/mozilla. As I am 
using the upstream nightly version of 64 bit firefox which looks for its 
plugins /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins I put a link to the flash installed 
plugin into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and link into 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins pointing at the /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins 
link. I removed pluginreg.dat and restarted firefox but about:plugins 
said I still had the 310 version installed. It wasn't until I rebooted 
linux that firefox reflected the correct version, which is why I thought 
it might be the ldconfig cache. I could have copied the plugin into 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but I don't like having unnecessary copies of 
files when links work properly in linux, plus I suspect if I did do that 
I would still have had the problem anyway.

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