CentOS - Feb 2020 - Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
> 
> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote:
>> On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com> said:
>>>> I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was
obsolete so
>>>> I went in search of an update.
>>> Adobe stopped releasing Flash for Linux a while back.? IIRC the
only
>>> "supported" Flash on Linux is distributed as a part of
Google Chrome
>>> (and that's going away sometime soon too, Chrome on all
platforms will
>>> no longer support Flash).
>>>
>> Don't know about C7 but I just yum updated my C6 system.
>> adobe-linux-x86_64 | 2.9 kB???? 00:00
>>
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.255-release will be
updated
>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.314-release will be an
update
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>
> It's still supported on C7:
> 
> $ yum list | grep flash
> flash-plugin.x86_64??? 32.0.0.314-release???? @adobe-linux-x86_64
> ...
I think you'll find the latest releases won't run on CentOS 7:

% ldd libflashplayer.so
./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not 
found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)

and hence Firefox won't load this version ...

The last version that runs on CentOS 7 is 32.0.0.270

See: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FP-4199058

James Pearson

James Pearson wrote:
> 
> J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
>>
>> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>>> Once upon a time, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com>
said:
>>>>> I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was
obsolete so
>>>>> I went in search of an update.
>>>> Adobe stopped releasing Flash for Linux a while back.? IIRC the
only
>>>> "supported" Flash on Linux is distributed as a part
of Google Chrome
>>>> (and that's going away sometime soon too, Chrome on all
platforms will
>>>> no longer support Flash).
>>>>
>>> Don't know about C7 but I just yum updated my C6 system.
>>> adobe-linux-x86_64 | 2.9 kB???? 00:00
>>>
>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>> --> Running transaction check
>>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.255-release will be
updated
>>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.314-release will be an
update
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>
>> It's still supported on C7:
>>
>> $ yum list | grep flash
>> flash-plugin.x86_64??? 32.0.0.314-release???? @adobe-linux-x86_64
>> ...
> 
> I think you'll find the latest releases won't run on CentOS 7:
> 
> % ldd libflashplayer.so
> ./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21'
not
> found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)
> 
> and hence Firefox won't load this version ...
> 
> The last version that runs on CentOS 7 is 32.0.0.270
> 
> See: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FP-4199058
Adobe have recently released Flash 32.0.0.330 - which works OK on CentOS 6/7

James Pearson

> James Pearson wrote:
>>
>> J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote:
>>>> On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>>>> Once upon a time, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at
gmail.com> said:
>>>>>> I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was
obsolete so
>>>>>> I went in search of an update.
>>>>> Adobe stopped releasing Flash for Linux a while back.? IIRC
the only
>>>>> "supported" Flash on Linux is distributed as a
part of Google Chrome
>>>>> (and that's going away sometime soon too, Chrome on all
platforms
>>>>> will
>>>>> no longer support Flash).
>>>>>
>>>> Don't know about C7 but I just yum updated my C6 system.
>>>> adobe-linux-x86_64 | 2.9 kB???? 00:00
>>>>
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.255-release will
be updated
>>>> ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:32.0.0.314-release will
be an
>>>> update
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>>
>>> It's still supported on C7:
>>>
>>> $ yum list | grep flash
>>> flash-plugin.x86_64??? 32.0.0.314-release???? @adobe-linux-x86_64
>>> ...
>>
>> I think you'll find the latest releases won't run on CentOS 7:
>>
>> % ldd libflashplayer.so
>> ./libflashplayer.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version
`GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not
>> found (required by ./libflashplayer.so)
>>
>> and hence Firefox won't load this version ...
>>
>> The last version that runs on CentOS 7 is 32.0.0.270
>>
>> See: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FP-4199058
>
> Adobe have recently released Flash 32.0.0.330 - which works OK on CentOS
> 6/7
Thanks for lettings us know, I already gave up checking as they didn't
manage to fix it for so many weeks.

Seems they finally found out that upgrading their build hosts to the
latest greatest distribution was not the smartest idea :-)

Regards,
Simon