Flash player with Fedora 9

[Ron Siven]

Jerry Ro wrote:
> Here it does, but firefox still does not load flash files.
>
> [root at localhost jer]# yum install flash-plugin
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Package flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386 already installed and 
> latest version
> Nothing to do
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com 
> <mailto:dfeustel at mindspring.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:02:50PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
>     > On 01/05/2009 06:56 PM, Jerry Ro wrote:
>     > > 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.
>     > >
>     > yum install flash-plugin
>
>     Yum reports no flash-plugin
>
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If you're running on 64-bit Fedora, you'll either have to use 
nspluginwrapper with the version you have installed, or run the 64-bit 
Alpha version of Flash Player.  You can download it from here:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

And, extract it to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ by running

cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
sudo tar xzvf libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz


I have had a really good experience with the 64-bit version, and found 
the 32-bit player running under nspluginwrapper to be somewhat flaky.