On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 06:37 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Warren Togami wrote: > > Macromedia recently released an update to their binary-only browser > > plugin to address CVE-2006-0024. > > > > http://macromedia.mplug.org/ > > I have an official agreement with Macromedia to repackage their binary > > for easy integration into Fedora and make it available in a yum > > repository here. > > > > FC5 users will want to upgrade to flash-plugin-7.0.63-1 in order > > properly handle firefox-1.5.x contained in FC5 in addition to closing > > this security issue. > > > > Warren Togami > > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx > Well here is the thing. I could not find the flash-plugin-7.0.63-1 in > any of the repos. So I went to http://macromedia.mplug.org/ and found > I could download the Fedora rpm. On the web-page it says to put the rpm > in the /etc/yum.repo.d directory and then run: yum install flash-plugin. > Well that seemed strange but I gave it a shot and it did not work. > Is it supposed to work? > That seems rather strange as a way to install something. I have never tried it, but would not expect that to work without some twiddling with paths, commands, etc. > In the end I installed the rpm the old fashioned way using rpm -Uvh > -- > > ======================================================================= > Humor in the Court: > Q: Could you see him from where you were standing? > A: I could see his head. > Q: And where was his head? > A: Just above his shoulders. > -------------------------------------------
