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(a)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www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out
of date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 version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.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.n...
# 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
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.