Hi,

> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> 
>>>
>> 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.
> 

n.b.: Adobe still offers security-updates for version 9 of the flash-plugin,
see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406791.html. Current version is 9.0.280
(07/2010).

Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Just wrapping 9.0.280 into an rpm might be a _much_ less painful alternative
(last one I tried was 9.0.277, didn't notice any problems under SL4.5).

Regards, Frank.