Re: Security: Macromedia Flash 7.0.63- question

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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 
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