Adobe not providing linux flash updates

Heinz Diehl htd+ml at fritha.org
Wed Feb 11 07:32:24 UTC 2015


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.



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