Le 17/01/2014 18:28, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, François Patte wrote: > >> Le 17/01/2014 05:11, Patrick Bartek a écrit : >>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>>> On Jo, 16 ian 14, 09:58:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [snip] >>> >>> I was unaware of this. I thought it was the plugin. I have since >>> read the the Debian Flash wiki and see my error. Of course, the >>> Debian way of installing/updating Flash is a lot easier than >>> Fedora's which I switched from middle of last year after using Core >>> and Fedora for a number of years: You have to do it 100% manually. >> >> yum install flash-plugin >> >> Is it what you call "100% manually" > > No. When I first started using Fedora at Core 3, and for a number of > years after, this was the only way to install Flash on Fedora: > > 1. Go to Adobe web site > > 2. Find the step-by-step install instructions. Read them. > > 3. Find download page for Flash for Linux. This was not a simple > click away. The Linux page was not easy to find. The Flash > Download page always defaulted to Windows. > > 4. Download the gzip file. No distro-specific repos or install files. > > 5. Uncompress locally in your /home directory, and as root copy the > flashplugin to the correct directory for your distro. It varied. > > 6. Test to see if it worked, and troubleshoot when it didn't. > > > Later as I remember, Adobe, besides the generic gzip file, > started supplying rpm, deb, etc. files for specific distros, so you > could use that distro's package manager to install the file, but you > still had to download it first. And up until I quit Fedora at > version 12 (I used it for a year past its End-of-Life until Wheezy Beta > was released), a simple 'yum install flash-plugin' was not possible > as Flash was not Open Source, and Fedora never, never, never put > proprietary software in their repos. You had to go to third party repos > for that. I don't know if Adobe ever set up its own dedicated Flash > repository for Linux.
You are talking of world before WW1... I have just update my laptop
running f14 (WW2) and:
yum update
Modules complémentaires chargés : langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding fr_FR to language list
Configuration du processus de mise à jour
Résolution des dépendances
--> Lancement de la transaction de test
---> Paquet VirtualBox-4.1.i686 0:4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1 marqué pour
être mis à jour
---> Paquet flash-plugin.i386 0:11.2.202.335-release marqué pour être
mis à jour
---> Paquet gthumb.i686 0:2.12.3-1.fc14 marqué pour être mis à jour
--> Résolution des dépendances terminée
Dépendances résolues
==================================================================================================================
Paquet Architecture Version
Dépôt Taille
==================================================================================================================
Mise à jour:
VirtualBox-4.1 i686 4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1
virtualbox 64 M
flash-plugin i386 11.2.202.335-release
adobe-linux-i386 6.6 M
gthumb i686 2.12.3-1.fc14
updates 4.0 M
Résumé de la transaction
==================================================================================================================
Upgrade 3 Package(s)
Taille totale : 74 M
Taille totale des téléchargement : 70 M
Est-ce correct [o/N] : o
Téléchargement des paquets :
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 70 M
(1/2): VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1.i686.rpm
| 64 MB 03:05
(2/2): flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.i386.rpm
| 6.6 MB 00:18
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Total
351 kB/s | 70 MB 03:24
Lancement de rpm_check_debug
Lancement de la transaction de test
Transaction de test réussie
Lancement de la transaction
Mise à jour : flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.i386
1/6
Mise à jour : VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1.i686
2/6
(Sorry! I didn't switch to LANG=C)
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
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Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
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