Issue while installing flash player in Red Hat Enterprise Linux V5.1
 

Hi Guyzzzz........

I hav successfully installed RHEL5.1 on my system. I downloaded flash player from Adobe website. I chose RPM from the download type.

Now, I can find an icon on my GUI for the flash player. When I right-click the icon and click on "Open with software installer", I was able to install flash player. Even the system showed that the software has been installed. But still when I issue the command rpm -qi flash the output says that flash is not installed.

Is there any correct way to install the rpm package.

I even tried to install using rpm -ivh <flash player pkg name> even that did'nt work......

I have another query... where does the package gets installed when I download RPM's or any other software from the internet.. I want to know the path where the pkgs will be sotred.....

Cheers
Leela.......

You can look at the files in an installed package with the command: "rpm -ql <package name>". For examining the contents of an rpm file you download, you can use the command "rpm -qlp <path/to/rpmfile.rpm>". You need to use the full filename and not just the package name. You may not have gotten the package name correct, or part of what looks like a version number is actually part of the name.
For example:
The number 3 is a part of the package name and not a part of the version. The full package filename is "libtiff3-3.8.2-133.37.1".


If this is a plugin for a web browser, then there may not be a program per-se. But a library that the browser uses.

yes.... it is a plugin for my webrowser.....
I have even tried using the full package name
rpm -qi flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm
still the output is "flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm"...

I have tried to locate the path of the installed rpm frm the command u stated above.

rpm -qlp flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm
the output is: error: open of flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory. Is there anythin else I can try..

Anyways..... thanks for ur reply....

The argument needs to be the actual file you downloaded. Include a full path the the file, or cd into the directory where you saved it.
Thanks for including the name of the file.
I downloaded a similar package for RHEL5 from the rpm.pbone.net website and looked at the contents.
There is no binary executable. There is a library file that your browser uses.
Note the two readme files and the setup file. On the file I downloaded, the README's contain the license. The setup file is a bash script which does explain where the files should be copied to.