Re: Very hard time installing Flash on FC6.

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 01/02/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 06:25, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I've tried several ways to install Flash on Firefox 2.0.0.1:
> >
> > 1) From the Macromedia repo:
> > flash-plugin.i386                        9.0.31.0-1             installed
> > Matched from:
> > flash-plugin
> >
> > Of course, I created the ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config link and ran /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
> > afterwards, but still no flash.
> >
> > 2) From the Adobe rpm:
> > [root localhost Desktop]# rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm
> >         package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1 (which is newer than
> > flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release) is already installed
> >
> > 3) Voodoo:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo
> >
> > What is the next course of action?
> >
> Dotan, Stanton Finlay wrote an excellent guide for FC5, which works equally
> well with FC6.  I used his method and found it totally trouble-free.
>
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Flash
>
> Anne

Thanks, Anne. I am familiar with Stanton's page: it's the second
bookmark in my Fedora folder. Stanton recommends using yum to install
the flash-plugin from the Macromedia repository. I did that, as
mentined in the email quoted above. However, Flash persists to elude
me.

Dotan Cohen

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