flash player dload

vital4ik · 04-18-2006, 04:14 PM

hey guys,reinstalled linux and now i'm having trouble dloading flash player using adobe site.
pls let me know if there is an alternative location to do so.

mcmillan · 04-19-2006, 12:41 PM

The most obvious place to look would be macromedia, since they're the ones that actually make the flash player. Also you might try using a package manager to install it, you don't say what distro you use, so I don't know what that is for you.

vital4ik · 04-19-2006, 02:06 PM

tried both, looks like the package is not available, on the macromedia site link does not work.
im using fc5
if you have the package please let me know.
10x

spooon · 04-19-2006, 04:06 PM

The official site for Linux Flash packages are here. You can download the RPM directly, or (better) add the Yum repo (that way it will update automatically) and do "yum install flash-plugin"

vital4ik · 04-19-2006, 04:53 PM

thank you for the link , will try tomorrow

vital4ik · 04-20-2006, 04:19 PM

tried the rpm. still getting the same error in firefox. it claims that it is not installed and asking me to install but apparently the link doesnt work.

mcmillan · 04-21-2006, 03:20 PM

I'm a little confused by your last post, you mean you installed the rpm from macromedia, but firefox doesn't open play flash?

There's also probably a list somewhere with yum telling what packages have been installed. If it's not in there try installing it again. I once had a package in in ubuntu that didn't actually install the first time when it said it did, but worked fine when I tried again.

How do you "try the rpm", I think the command to install it is rpm -i [name of package] also if you can remember any messages that installing it gave you. I think I rmember when I used Mandriva it let me install rpms by double clicking, if you did that maybe try installing it again from a console instead.

vital4ik · 04-21-2006, 08:12 PM

i manually tried to install the rpm, got the message that the rpm is already installed, updated the installed rpm with the one i dloaded, still same result. could it be due to firefix requiring a separate player installation via the firefox plugins mechanism?

mcmillan · 04-21-2006, 08:36 PM

That looks like it is the plugin. Did you see this page?

Quote:

I installed the RPM package but Flash does not work.

Open a terminal and run /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup. Here you
will be given an opportunity to accept the End User License Agreement.
If you had already accepted the license then it will link the plugin
to all known browsers.

If you do not see any error messages, then it probably worked. Be
sure to fully close your web browsers and run it again from scratch
before testing the Flash plugin for the first time.

In any Mozilla compatible browser, open "about

lugins" within the
URL bar and it should show a list of all installed plugins.
You should see "Shockwave Flash" somewhere in that list.

That smiley should be a : followed by p by the way.

vital4ik · 04-21-2006, 10:14 PM

thank you very much, will try the solution on monday at work.
thank you