HI

i am unable to play videos in my laptop it is showing as missing plugins

while when installing it intaller is showing it is already installed

please suggest what need to be done

RHEL on a laptop? playing youtube videos? wrong!
you need to install a desktop distro.

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Please read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. You are not providing any details that would let us help you, such as what type of hardware, what desktop environment you're using, what video player you're using, type of video file, and what 'installer' is showing you what message(s), where, and when. We can't guess.

Also, as noted, RHEL7 is *NOT* really designed for desktop/'consumer' use...and it is also NOT FREE. Are you PAYING FOR RHEL??? If so, then contact Red Hat support. If not, and this is a new installation, stop where you are and load something else. If you really, TRULY need a server-class distro, then load CentOS. But you most probably do NOT need it, and could easily load Mint, Fedora or openSUSE, and save yourself a lot of headaches.

If you have not paid, you have a demo version of Red Hat. This will not contain any software patented in the USA, as RH don't want to get sued. That includes the codes necessary to use media files. The free version of Red Hat is CentOS, but you still need to get your own plugins from a different source, and it takes time and a little knowledge to do it right.

The answer is to get a distro that's aimed at home users and that comes with all the media files. If you're using the Gnome desktop, try Ubuntu Gnome. If you're using KDE, try Kubuntu.

If for some reason you must have Red Hat (e.g. for study) then get CentOS and enable the EPEL and RPMfusion repositories, following the instructions here
https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRe...s/Repositories
https://wiki.centos.org/PackageManag...Yum/Priorities

I suggest install openSUSE! That's a very nice Desktop!

Hello and welcome to the forum, by the way.

Thanks all


It got solved by keeping a downloaded file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

For the benefit of anybody wishing to update Adobe Flash manually in Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...lugin-manually

Alternatively, you can use Google Chrome which updates Adobe Flash automatically:

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player...le-chrome.html

vipul027,

Please mark this thread as SOLVED using the Tools tab at the top of your original post.

Hi...

This might be misunderstood. The Pepper version of Flash is not automatically updated within a version of Google Chrome. You have to update the copy of Chrome to a newer (or newest) version in order for Flash Player to be upgraded as well. In Linux, Chrome does update itself automatically as the Windows version does.

I'm using version 43.0.2357.125 of Chrome and still have version 18.0.0.160 of Flash Player. Here is an article about a similar release.

Regards...

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