Testing on OpenSUSE 42.1 x86-64 VM:
Here are the results I get running 'file' on the 280.0.161 .tar.gz and RPM files:
Linux-i6da:/home/labuser/Downloads # file flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "libflashplayer.so.tar", last modified: Thu Feb 1 16:06:13 2018, from Unix
linux-i6da:/home/labuser/Downloads # file flash-player-npapi-28.0.0.161-release.x86_64.rpm
flash-player-npapi-28.0.0.161-release.x86_64.rpm: RPM v3.0 bin i386/x86_64
I am able to successfully:
- uncompress the .tar.gz using the command: tar xvzf flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
- install the RPM package using rpm -i flash-player-npapi-28.0.0.161-release.x86_64.rpm
These are the 'file' command results for Flash Player 28.0.0.137 .tar.gz and RPM files:
linux-i6da:/home/labuser/Downloads # file flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "libflashplayer.so.tar", last modified: Thu Dec 14 15:55:42 2017, from Unix
linux-i6da:/home/labuser/Downloads # file flash-player-npapi-28.0.0.137-release.x86_64.rpm
flash-player-npapi-28.0.0.137-release.x86_64.rpm: RPM v3.0 bin i386/x86_64
These are the same as what I get from 28.0.0.161.
What are the 'file' command results you get on 28.0.0.137, which according to your previous comment are working fine.
After considering that it might have been corrupted on download, I downloaded it again ... and it's fine this time. 8-}
I'm not sure what happened, but my download machine has been acting odd the last couple of days so I think I'll run a big memtest to see if I have a hardware issue.
Thanks for looking into this for me!
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