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 <r...@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 www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date 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 version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
