Adobe not providing linux flash updates

[Heinz Diehl]

On 11.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: 

> 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.

As described previously, you can avoid all the confusion by removing the flash
plugin entirely and re-installing it via the Adobe-provided .tar.gz into
~/.mozilla/plugins. You only need the libflashplayer.so. One file, one copy,
that's all. It won't get any easier.