MX 21 flash plugin

[Privacyman]

Hi, out of doubt I was just wanting to make sure that the discontinued and highly insecure flash plugin isn't going to be installed in MX 21 unlike with MX 19

[Jerry3904]

It's gone for good now in Adobe and thus in all distros AFAIK.

[Privacyman]

great, thank you for your answer

[dolphin_oracle]

it was also removed from the 19.4 isos.

[Huckleberry Finn]

[crazysquirrel]

< MX 20 still has this in the repo and it is broken (disable existing flash and I consider that update MALWARE):

adobe-flashplugin (1:20170411.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 => 1:20201208.1-1mx19+1)

That one DISABLES flash if you update to it.

For me, I MUST have flash. Just have far too many flash things to just throw them all in the garbage. YEARS worth. And there is no suitable software in Linux to convert them into something usable without all that command line nonsense.

Flash can still be of value if you run a virtual machine with an OS running flash too.

Too bad Linux won't auto sandbox Adobe Flash so you can still use flash, albeit safely.

Would be nice if I could select what I DON'T want updated instead of being forced to update everything. And keep it selected until I choose otherwise via a GUI.

[Eadwine Rose]

You can pin what you don't want updated. Nobody is forcing you to apply all the updates that are provided for you.


https://mxlinux.org/wiki/help-files/help-synaptic/
Look for the pinning section.

[crazysquirrel]

I am using the default MX Updater.
I was advised to NOT use synaptic if I can avoid it and stick with what the experts advice that make the operating system.

I have noticed that there is no 'pin' selection in synaptic.
Choices are remove, remove all, sometimes reinstall, and install.
There is no pin choice for me.

Additionally, there are far more updates available in synaptic than in mx updater.

Updates can be problematic. Either lose functionality (as with flash) or lose performance or lose everything.
Not rich enough here to afford an external RAID array.

[SwampRabbit]

Flash is dead, if you want that changed talk to Adobe, that’s the bottom line. It doesn’t matter what Distro it is.

If there is no pin option that means there is nothing to pin to.

[dolphin_oracle]

adobe's last update for flash disables flash. that was recommended a year ago when flash was End of Life by adobe.

I don't think we have older versions of flash in our repo anymore. you could possible use mx19.2 and get a copy that way. I think synaptic calls pinning "Force version".