Problem with Flash binary download packages? (OpenSuSe from 12.3 - 42.3)

[BuckNut1964]

I'm trying to update my flash player on Linux. I've downloaded both .tar.gz and .rpm for Linux 64-bit (version 28.0.0.161), but neither file is readable as the filetype they are supposed to be (the 'file' command returns 'data', instead of 'gzip compressed data' and 'RPM v3.0 bin', respectively).

Is there something going on with these packages? They seem to be corrupted.

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[_maria_]

What Linux distro is this on?

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which flash player plugin is this?  NPAPI for Firefox or PPAPI for Chromium based browsers?

[BuckNut1964]

I'm using multiple Linux distros: OpenSuSe from 12.3 - 42.3. None of them can recognize the file format.

The flash plugin is NPAPI for Firefox.

FYI: I've been downloading the updates for a couple of years, with no problems (up through version 28.0.0.137). This is the first one I've had any issue with.

[_maria_]

Thank you for the additional information, I'll investigate further

[_maria_]

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.

[BuckNut1964]

I did  a 'file' on the tarballs on the following 3 distros, with identical results:

• openSUSE 12.3
• openSUSE 13.2
• openSUSE Leap 42.3

dsrv:~ # file flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.137.x86_64.tar.gz

flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.137.x86_64.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "libflashplayer.so.tar", last modified: Thu Dec 14 18:55:42 2017, from Unix

dsrv:~ # file flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.161.x86_64.tar.gz

flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.161.x86_64.tar.gz: data

It occurs to me that I should make sure the file wasn't somehow corrupted on download either, so I've include the md5sums:

dsrv:~ # md5sum flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.137.x86_64.tar.gz flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.161.x86_64.tar.gz

3bb2fd5a2f1973533c35e6da1b582ed9 flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.137.x86_64.tar.gz

9b9a12b2b0abe1d6e85c5bd698e51bb4 flash_player_npapi_linux_28.0.0.161.x86_64.tar.gz

PS: The tarball is the important file to me, because of how we distribute the plugin across our systems. I only downloaded the .rpm to see if I had issues with it too.

[BuckNut1964 · Accepted solution]

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!

[_maria_]

You're welcome, and I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue.

For verification, the md5 for the 28.0.0.161 64-bit tar.gz is:

md5="4cdf5f5d6d5d7b7c10981a852578345f" name="flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz"