On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
[Looking for Flash Player]
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
Googling didn't turn this up?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
Well, not as such. Googling turns up (as always) several million things
and that
one was not, uh, prominent. After looking through the first half dozen
or so hits,
I gave up.
That being said, thanks for pointing out that site to me.
***That*** being said, it still doesn't work. I followed the
instructions to the letter.
(1)
sudo yum install
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
-y
This gave:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm | 4.2 kB
00:00
Examining
/var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm:
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
/var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does
not update installed package.
Error: Nothing to do
Which is pretty much as I expected, given that I had installed the
damned thing already.
(2)
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linuxThi
This produced no response at all --- no error message, but neither was
there any
indication of success.
(3)
sudo yum install flash-plugin -y
This produced a bunch of boiler-plate and finally:
Package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 already installed and
latest version
Nothing to do
So it would *appear* that everything was already in place as it should
be. But then:
(4)
Type the following text in the Firefox address bar:
about:plugins
When I did that I got:
No installed plugins found
I must be missing some key element in my set-up, but I have no idea what.
Can anyone enlighten me? Grateful for any advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. It was suggested that I try Google Chrome. I did that, and under
Google Chrome,
flash does indeed work and I can play the videos from the links that I
was sent.
Nevertheless I would rather stick with using Firefox (the devil I know)
and I would like
to understand just *why* flash is refusing to work under Firefox. As I
said, I would
appreciate enlightenment!
R. T.
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