Recently changed over to OpenSuse after about 10 years Mandriva/Mageia - felt it was time for a change. Initially after installing I was a bit lost trying to sort out the multimedia stuff but after finding an online guide and installing Packman repositories all was good and I’m quite happy with Opensuse.
Recently I was having trouble updating as it kept on stopping on an error which I eventually worked out to be the Flash Plugin - I get the error:
Error: INVALID:flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-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 (2e1b807d5abfd23ad1acfb0da3d5aea7e301f377)
MD5 digest: OK (7cd43967573108ff5bec920b952b4a64)
V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY
We have no idea what you did to start that update. Remember that there are in many cases several ways to do something in Unix/Linux and the way you prefer might not be the way others do the same thing.
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Original update notification was via the “Software Updates” in the Plasma System tray but update kept on failing. I unselected the FlashPlugin an the other updates updated OK. I then went to Software management in YAST and tried updating the Flash Plugin there and that’s where I got this error message.
just looking at Software Management in YAST I have “Adobe Flash Plugin and Stand Alone Player” from Packman as well as Adobe Flash Player 11.2" from Adobe which is actually the one that needs updating - do I need both?
OK deleted the “Flash Plugin - Adobe Flash Player 11.2” and still have Flash Player - Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player" from Packman. Do I need the updated Flash Plugin - Adobe Flash Player 11.2"?
Not sure what you actually installed from where, but maybe the following makes things clearer.
Error: INVALID:flash-plugin-11.2.202.621-release.x86_64 (adobe-flash-plugin): Signature verification failed [4-Signatures public key is not available]
This is normal, Adobe packages are not signed. If you are sure to have downloaded from a trusted source, you may choose to ignore the warning and install nonetheless.
To play flash videos in a browser, you just need the flash plugin, not the standalone player; be aware that most sites these days are compatible with HTML5 (including YouTube) and don’t ask for flash anymore.
Apparently, the package mentioned by the error message comes directly from Adobe and was manually installed: it has the plugin only, original download size is about 7MB.
The Packman/Extra repo offers a package called flash-player-11.2.202.621-2.1.x86_64.rpm whose download size is about 12MB and which installs a standalone player besides the plugin needed by Firefox.
If you need to play flash videos without a browser you need this second version (although the last time I checked the standalone player was not working…)
So, you just need one of those two packages, or maybe none at all, depending on your needs.
I recommend that you install flash from the packman repo instead of using the adobe repo. And do one or the other – not both. If you install both, you won’t be sure which you are using at any given time.
I’m not an expert on this, so I could be mistaken.
My understanding is that the adobe repo is not signed, but the packages are.
In the standard repos, the repo itself is signed. So the metadata for the repo is signed. Normally, zypper checks the signature on the metadata. If that is good, and if the individual rpm package has a checksum that corresponds to what the metadata says, then that package is accepted even if there’s a problem with the individual package signature.
In the adobe case, the repo is not signed so the metadata is not trusted. So the individual package signature is then checked.
Thankyou all for your replies, I will remove the Adobe repo and stick with Packman. I likely installed both from following 2 separate setup guides and so doubled up.