tg3793

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Ok. I've searched the forum and I bet I'm just over looking something. I have Firefox 3.5.1 running on Fedora 11. I have the GPK Package Manager for Gnome and it shows Adobe Flash 10 is installed (for i386). However the Flash test at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ says I still need to download the plugin.

Here are the resources I've consulted so far:

Yum Command Not Found
- So I made sure I was at [root@localhost ~]

Adobe Flash player; can't complete install
- This is for Fedora 8 and I'm not sure if it applies.
- But I did try "yum install flash-player" but got "No package flash-player available"

knudfl

If you are not quite sure it is installed correctly :

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Select version to download ...
YUM for Linux :
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/tha...inux_%28YUM%29

1) su , password
2) rpm -Uvh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

3) yum search flash
4) yum install flash-plugin
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tg3793

Thanks for your feedback knudfl. Sorry I didn't see your response before I took a few extra steps or I would have tried that first. However I came across this website which gave me a great step by step installation for Fedora 11.

The third page gave me a tip to run "about: plugins" from the url in Firefox which gave me my "Aha moment" when it came back and said their were no plugins install. I restarted Firefox and it still said no plugins installed.

Then I searched through some more resources and came across these two commands. I tried the first one but "about: plugins" still showed no plugins installed. Then I tried the 2nd one and it said again no plugins installed. However after I installed the 2nd command below I decided to restart Firefox again, and 'Bingo'.

su -c 'yum install flash-plugin alsa-plugins-pulseaudio \ libcurl'

su -c 'yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \nspluginwrapper.i586 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586 \libcurl.i586'

So I honestly can't say which of the two commands fixed the prob. I'm leaning on the 2nd one simply because it seemed to do a lot more after it was run.

* This takes care of my "Adobe Flash Player" problem but I still don't have the "Adobe Shockwave Player" problem fixed yet. Thanks for your help.

knudfl

AFAIK, there is no "Adobe Shockwave Player" for Linux

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp

And I haven't met any sites asking for it,
when the flash-plugin is installed.

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tg3793

Thanks for the info Knudfl ... Saved me some time in barking up the wrong tree.

I have been able to find an answer that seems reasonable (and another one here) but I don't think I will try it just this moment. If/when I do I will come back to this thread to provide feedback to help the next person.

And there is also a few thoughts on the subject here on another LinuxQuestions forum (I just found it a few min ago). However I have a few other things that I want to tackle; namely a windows backup (per my nephews request), and the completion of a few other tweaks on this Linux installation that I am working on right now.

Again, thanks for the information. And I hope this thread gives some sort of help to the next soul trying to search for a solution on this problem :-)

caoz96

i have this message:

[root@quimica flash]# yum search flash
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Conexi\xc3\xb3n rehusada')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux-i386. Please verify its path and try again


[root@quimica flash]# yum install flash-plugin
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Conexi\xc3\xb3n rehusada')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux-i386. Please verify its path and try again

knudfl

@ caoz96 : Instead of hijacking a thread with a new
question : Please start your own thread.

Support for Redhat EL : Only when you pay for an account.

The free versions of Redhat EL 5.3 are :
CentOS 5.3 and Scientific Linux 'SL 53'
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tg3793

Knudfl, I appreciate everything you've helped me with, but don't you think there is a chance you were being a little harsh with the newbie.

You did say "please" :-) ... but "blunting them up" with the whole "hijacking the thread" comment might be a bit discouraging for him/her if they are a newb and not familiar with the personality of Linux uber geeks :-)

caoz96
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Registered: Aug 2009
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After all he/she just might not know any better or be too young to know the proper etiquette in forums. Of course, if "caoz96" is a little older or already familiar with forums, then he/she should know better.

No disrespect intended towards Knudfl at all.