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.
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