The current update for flash-player fails repeatedly. I have reverted to older version and locked it. Continue to get update notification for it. Anyway to avoid that until adobe fixes flash?
How are you trying to update ? If you are using Apper, try going into YAST > Online Update and update from there
If you have an ATI card, try disabling ‘Hardware Acceleration’ in ‘Settings’ when you right click the flash player
The flash update is done as a patch instead of a package update. Therefore, locking the package doesn’t prevent update notifications. The following procedure will lock the patch. First, figure out the name of the patch by issuing this command:
sudo zypper patch
In reply to the dialog, tell zypper not to update the patch. The output from this command will tell you the name of the patch. In my case, for the recent flash-player update which crashes, the name of the patch was openSUSE-2012-262-1.noarch. To lock this patch then issue this command:
sudo zypper al -t patch openSUSE-2012-262
Note that the “-1.noarch” in the patch name was the <patch version>.noarch which should not be included in the “zypper al” command.
You can list your locked packages and patches with:
zypper ll
Here are applicable zypper commands:
zypper ll – list locks
zypper al – add locks
zypper rl – remove locks
zypper patch – apply patches
Note that when you decide to remove the lock for patches using “zypper rl” you must use the lock number whereas you can use the package name for packages.
FYI,
Gordon
On 05/18/2012 05:56 PM, losingle wrote:
> Anyway to avoid that
disable (or some uninstall) apper (if that is the source of repeated
notifications)… apper does not work well with YaST Online Update
(YOU)…even when flash is marked taboo in YOU, apper will notify you
and try to install it…
once apper is where it should be (gone or off) then use YOU occasionally
(i check daily)…
–
dd
On 05/18/2012 07:36 PM, gldickens3 wrote:
>
> FYI,
VERY cool info, thank you!!!
–
dd
A huge “thank you”! I have an integrated ATI video chip, and Flash plug-in was constantly crashing. Disabling hardware acceleration fixed it. Thanks!
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.8.3 nvidia 290.10
Recent upgrade to flash-player 11.2.202.235-21.1-x86_64 fails to load in browser.
Reverting to flash-player 11.2.202.235-15.1-x86_64 seems to fix the problem.
I use manual updates, so just a matter of paying attention. Hope this helps.
I just did a “zypper up” and found a new flash-player update which is: 11.2.202.236-24.1-x86_64. This version appears to work fine without the problems in the previous version (11.2.202.235-21.1-x86_64). I think that the developers solved the problem. Its working fine for me in both Thunderbird and Firefox. So, give it a test drive.
Confirmed… 
gldickens3 wrote:
>
> I just did a “zypper up” and found a new flash-player update which is:
> 11.2.202.236-24.1-x86_64. This version appears to work fine without
> the
> problems in the previous version (11.2.202.235-21.1-x86_64). I think
> that the developers solved the problem. Its working fine for me in
> both
> Thunderbird and Firefox. So, give it a test drive.
>
>
Also works in SeaMonkey and Konqueror.
Russ
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