Flash player with Fedora 9

[geek at uniserve.com]

Quoting Jerry Ro <jerrro at gmail.com>:

> hi,
> did anyone manager to install a flash player on fedora 9 with firefox?
> I followed the exact instructions from fedora (when it told me "install
> flash driver") and downloaded an rpm they suggested, installed it using YUM,
> but it still won't work. (did it as root.)
> 
> this is what happens when i try to run yum again on the package (at first it
> installed it, now after it is installed:)
> 
> [root at localhost jer]# yum install adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> updates-newkey                                           | 2.3 kB
> 00:00
> fedora                                                   | 2.4 kB
> 00:00
> updates                                                  | 2.6 kB
> 00:00
> adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B
> 00:00
> primary.xml.gz                                           |  10 kB
> 00:00
> adobe-linux-i386                                               17/17
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Examining adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm:
> adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
> adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
> Nothing to do
> 
> which makes me believe it is installed.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks.
> 

you don't say what the problem is. you say the computer says it is installed and
you believe it is installed, so what? does it not play flash content?

Dave