Flash player installation support?

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Tue May 2 04:28:45 UTC 2006


Stanton Finley wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 21:50 -0400, Mike Chalmers wrote:
>   
>> When trying to install Flash Player following instuctions at
>> http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html, I
>> run into a problem:
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [root at dhcppc0 ~]# yum -y install flash-plugin
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> dries                                                                [1/5]
>> dries                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> core                                                                 [2/5]
>> http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
>> Trying other mirror.
>> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> updates                                                              [3/5]
>> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> freshrpms                                                            [4/5]
>> freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> extras                                                               [5/5]
>> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
>> Trying other mirror.
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 608 kB    00:10
>> dries     : ################################################## 2584/2584
>> Added 2584 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.98 seconds
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 249 kB    00:04
>> updates   : ################################################## 805/805
>> Added 413 new packages, deleted 0 old in 3.47 seconds
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  55 kB    00:03
>> freshrpms : ################################################## 171/171
>> Added 171 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.98 seconds
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> No Match for argument: flash-plugin
>> Nothing to do
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> Another reason you may be getting the "nothing to do message" would be
> that you do not have the macromedia repository configured as suggested
> so yum can find a match for flash-plugin.
>   
Yes, it appears you don't have the mplug repo. Simple fix, as root:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://macromedia.mplug.org/macromedia-i386.repo

-Dan




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