Problem with Adobe flash in Firefox

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Hello
Last about couple of weeks (I am not sure) i get messafe on Firefox Mozilla. “Firefox prevented the outdated plugin Adobe flash from running on…” (some webpage. I tried to update) flash player, downloading flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64.rpm and try to install typing as root

 
rpm -i flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64.rpm

This results:



file /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/README from install of flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64 conflicts with file from package flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64
        file /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so from install of flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64 conflicts with file from package flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64
        file /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so from install of flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64 conflicts with file from package flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64

In Google chrome I have not this problem. How can I solve this?

Thank you for answer my questions

2

It seams you have a version of flash installed can you post the output of

zypper se -si flash

Where did you get flash from? I’m assuming you got it from adobe and just installed it, well that’s bad practice as you won’t get updates and Mozilla blocks flash builds, there wore some changes and now openSUSE does not provide flash for LEAP and TW the preffered way to get your flash is from packman, so do you have packman, post your repo list

zypper lr -d

if you have packman remove the flash you got from adobe and install it from packman

zypper rm flash-plugin
zypper in flash-player

if you do not have packman add it then remove adobe’s rpm and get it from packman

zypper ar -f http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ packman
zypper rm flash-plugin
zypper in flash-player

by installing flash from an active repo you can be sure that you will get updates regulary so you won’t have to worry if Mozilla blocks your flash.
ps packman’s version of flash is can be found here

3

This seems to be the plugin packaged by Adobe and apparently you have a former version installed.
To update the installed package, use


 # rpm -Uvh flash-plugin-11.2.202.559-release.x86_64.rpm

as the Adobe Readme suggests.
As I_A wrote, you have to repeat the procedure from time to time…

4

the problem with adobe’s rpm is that it has different packaging and conflicts with some other openSUSE rpm’s like flash-player-kde4 (sort of depreciated on LEAP) and flash-player-gnome those rpm’s provide desktop integration with flash in kde and gnome config center’s, that’s why you’re better off using packman’s rpm ie flash-player and not flash-plugin

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First of all - thank you - you helped me. You solved my problem. I removed the one installed and then installed it again the way (with zypper…) you suggested I installed “failed version” directly from

<a href="https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/</a>

, selecting rpm version. Now, I will answer your questions wihtout quotes.
zypper lr -d gives:

#  | Alias                               | Name                                    | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                     | Service
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | Google-Chrome                       | Google-Chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                     |        
 2 | google-chrome                       | google-chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                     |        
 3 | http-download.opensuse.org-dd7988cc | Non-oss                                 | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/       |        
 4 | http-download.videolan.org-3901f2b4 | SuSE                                    | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/Leap_42.1/                            |        
 5 | http-opensuse-guide.org-42d8840d    | libdvdcss repository                    | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                      |        
 6 | http-packman.inode.at-77310b69      | Packman Repository                      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                        |        
 7 | openSUSE-42.1-0                     | openSUSE-42.1-0                         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/           |        
 8 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug                | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/     |        
 9 | repo-debug-non-oss                  | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug-Non-Oss        | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/ |        
10 | repo-debug-update                   | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug         | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/oss                 |        
11 | repo-debug-update-non-oss           | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/            |        
12 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Non-Oss              | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/       |        
13 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Source               | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/    |        
14 | repo-update                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/                      |        
15 | repo-update-non-oss                 | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                  |

Yes, I have Packman repository from address

 http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/