Flash-player-plugin 30.0.0.134 and flash-player-plugin-kde 30.0.0.134 can't be installed

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Hello,

  • _OpenMandriva Lx version: 3.03

  • _Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): KDE

  • _Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
    The flash-player-plugin 30.0.0.134 and flash-player-plugin-kde 30.0.0.134 packages in the 3.03 repository seems to be to old and refuse to install.

  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

# urpmi flash-player-plugin
…
Error: Unable to download Flash Player. This is likely due to this package
being too old. Please file a bug report at https://issues.openmandriva.org
so that the package gets updated. Thank you.
…

Regards,
Albert

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What about downloading directly from the website of Adobe? Maybe it will work?

Regards

Andi

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Thanks for the tip. It is very likely this would work since the OM packages is a script that downloads the package from Adobe web site.

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your welcome :slight_smile: Would be great to know if it works.

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Thanks for reporting.

That is probably correct. I think @Colin is usually the person that updates this package. Colin is away for a week of so. I’ll mention this on IRC and we’ll see if anyone else is able to do this. If not it may be a week or two until this is dealt with.

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And a hearty welcome to OpenMandriva forum @andi89gi.

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thx ben79 :slight_smile: for welcoming here.

As you may have read I would like participate in development/QA :wink:

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Someway related??
https://forum3.openmandriva.org/t/a-challenge/1513/2
https://forum3.openmandriva.org/t/flashplayer-error/1512
https://forum3.openmandriva.org/t/solved-unable-to-download-flash-player/1480

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related?

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Related to the OP’s issue.
(Or maybe not…)

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I think the only thing to do is just update version and sha256sums here for new upstream flash-player-plugin/flash-player-plugin.spec at master · OpenMandrivaAssociation/flash-player-plugin · GitHub

and build package in abf.

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Okay well than someone could do this maybe?
I am not familiar in ABF - maybe anybody could explain me how to use it?

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BlockquoteRelated to the OP’s issue.
(Or maybe not…)

ah okay :wink:

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:wink:

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Andi we have something in ABF for beginners category.
Some of ours packagers/devs may mentor you, currently devs are very busy with fixing packages and mass rebuild(s) though.

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Thx a lot for ABF for beginners;) I will have a look right now.
It would be great if our packagers/devs would mentor me.
Ok - it is a lot to do as I see on the link you sent.

Btw - Are there any other users or devs/packagers from Germany? Would be interesting.

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Yes.

Post-edit: These are all regarding two issues.

  1. Often our flash-player package does not get updated until someone reports that it is out of date.

  2. We don’t yet have an effective way to automatically update packages like flash-player. This issue also pertains to kernel module packages like nVidia drivers. And probably one or a few other packages. Some like nVidia drivers may not be possible to automate.

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Yes. Or almost. Gabriel Craciunescu aka: crazy lives in Germany but I believe is from Romania. Bernhard Rosenkranzer aka: bero is from and lives in Switzerland and I believe is a German speaker. bero is also a member of the OMA council. And apologies if I left anyone out.

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Yep, and you are hereby nominated.

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Ahhh :confused: … done, should be fixed :slight_smile:

Packages in non-free/testing repo. Check it.

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Thanks, apologies if I was imposing on your time. I meant the nominating thing partly at least in humor.

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