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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:34:15 +0100
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Urs Beyerle wrote:

> I don't have a SL4 system at the moment to test. The rpm comes from DAG
> repo, so
>
> yum --enablerepo=dag install flash-plugin
>
> may work.
>
> Please note, the 9.0.152 version of flash-plugin is an old one and as a
> lot of security problems!
>
> Flash-plugin is not open source and the only one who can fix it is Adobe.

>>> ---> Package flash-plugin.i386 0:10.1.82.76-release set to be updated
>>> --> Running transaction check
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) for package: flash-plugin
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 for package:
>>> flash-plugin
>>> --> Processing Dependency: glibc >= 2.4 for package: flash-plugin
>>> --> Processing Dependency: libcairo.so.2 for package: flash-plugin
>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
>>> Finished Kernel Module Plugin
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by package
>>> flash-plugin
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 is needed by
>>> package flash-plugin
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: glibc >= 2.4 is needed by package flash-plugin
>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libcairo.so.2 is needed by package
>>> flash-plugin

Would it work if Vivek built the appropriate libraries from
SL5.5 on his 4.x machine ?
I can see that multiple libc.so.6 libraries (from glibc) will be
hard, but perhaps not impossible.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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