Security: Macromedia Flash 7.0.63- question

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Mar 26 19:11:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 09:31 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun March 26 2006 9:10 am, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On the web-page it says to put the rpm
> >
> > > in the /etc/yum.repo.d directory and then run: yum install flash-plugin.
> > > Well that seemed strange but I gave it a shot and it did not work.
> > > Is it supposed to work?
> >
> > That seems rather strange as a way to install something.
> > I have never tried it, but would not expect that to work without some
> > twiddling with paths, commands, etc.
> 
> I think his fingers got ahead of him. You don't put an rpm in yum.repos.d 
> according to those instructions. You put a Macromedia repo file  in there, 
> enabled. Then, install using "yum install"

That makes perfect sense. The idea of putting the rpm there did not. I
had not looked at the instructions so was going by what the OP said.




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