openSUSE 13.2 How to remove flash-player forever?

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Hello,
If i remove flash-player and its dependecies with zypper, like:


zypper rm flash-player pullin-flash-player flash-player-kde4

it removes fine.
But next time when i run Software management it installs pullin-flash-player and flash-player-kde4 back again.
I want to know which is correct way to remove flash-player and its dependecies forever?

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See here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/506738-Uninstalling-recommended-suggested-packages

The best thing probably is removing the pattern that recommends flash-player. I don’t know which one that is at the moment, but you can browse them in View->Patterns. If you select one, you’ll see a list of packages that it requires/recommends/suggests in the package list on the right.
To remove a pattern (not the packages), you’ll have to do so in the pattern list on the left.

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In Yast software management, right click on “pullin-flash-player” and mark it to never install (taboo).

You can probably do the same with:

# zypper addlock pullin-flash-player

I have not tested that.

4

Hello Wolfi323,
Setting taboo on pattern Misc. Proprietary Packages seems do the trick.
Thank you.

5

firefox is pulling it in

you could forbid flash from installing in the yast gui
( the option is on the r-click menu )

or
uninstall firefox rpm and use the mozilla tarbal
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/
the 64 bit firefox is
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/

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Hm?
AFACIS Firefox does neither require (or else you couldn’t even uninstall it without removing Firefox too) nor recommend flash-player:

wolfi@amiga:~> rpm -q --recommends MozillaFirefox
gstreamer-fluendo-mp3
gstreamer-plugins-libav
libcanberra0
libpulse0
wolfi@amiga:~>

So I see absolutely no need to remove the Firefox package and install from mozilla’s tarball instead…