Flash-plugin from community Adobe Flash Plugin repository

I’m getting a message that the community ‘Package flash-plugin is broken, integrity check has failed.’ (details below)

Is it safe? Or is this just a spurious message?

  Error: INVALID:flash-plugin-11.2.202.643-release.x86_64 (Adobe Flash Plugin): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available]
     Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY
     Header SHA1 digest: OK (4049465e07f5c8a074acbcf6039f11f54e4a77e0)
     MD5 digest: OK (d9cc5f78ede4210f6a1fcad9c1ddf224)
     V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY

Spontanious? Or are you using some application or so?

Should get flash from packman the Adobe repos has never been well maintained by Adobe. Surprise surprise :open_mouth:

Just Firefox. I was getting messages from Firefox telling me that the flash-player was blocked because incompatible (out-of-date). The updates took a while to catch up, so I activated Adobe repo instead.

I do not use Flash in Firefox but if I were to use it I would also take it from Packman.

This looks like the now standard message Firefox gives. If the box within the message is clicked, there is the choice “allow now” and “allow and remember”.
This message pops up each time Firefox is updated and also when a newer Flash is available.

If Flash is installed from Adobe, for it to work correctly, the Packman (openSUSE) version has to be deleted, at least that was the status the last time it was tried.

cheers

Firefox blocks old flash plugins regulary so you need to keep flash up to date
if you get flash from packman it will be auto-updated, as adob’e repo does npt provide the pgp key it’s updates are ignored you’d have to manually update it, if you just installed an rpm downloaded from adobe you’d have to redownload and reinstall everytime there is an update.
the best way to get flash is from packman as it’s signed and it will be auto updated

one more thing adobe calls the flash rpm flash-plugin while packman calls it flash-player having different names is problematic as duing a vendor change to packman will not replace flash from adobe you need to do it manually, so remove flash-plugin and install flash-player

I recommend installing from packman.

Yes, there was a period where the packman version was lagging behind. But recently, it seems to be keeping up to date.

Earlier, when packman was lagging, I did install flash from the adobe repo. I first found the adobe key on a keyserver, and fetched to my gpg keyring (should be able to use “kgpg” or similar for that). Then I exported to a file. Then I use “rpmkeys” to import into the rpm database. And, after that, I was able to use flash from the adobe repos. However, I have now reverted to using from packman, since that is being kept up to date.

I’ve found this:

Adobe Repository 32-bit x86

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

in this link: https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

Regards,
Marcelo.

tanks for that
to be clear
those rpm’s only contain adobe’s public pgp key
it’s simpler to get flash from packman as opensuse users need packman for multimedia support
adding an extra repo then installing a package and importing a pgp key is way too much work
packman’s pgp key is included in the repo so just by adding it you get access to it

for example for LEAP this is packmans public key
ftp://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/repodata/repomd.xml.key
no need for extra packages or commands