I use Firefox bouth in WindowsXP and in Fedora Core 5. As usual, in Windows-word no problems. In Fedora Core Firefox works otherwise well but untill recently I have not gotten Flash Player
plugin to install. I found some advice and did everything asked (a long list follows):
[fossiili@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install flash-plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna [1/7]
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
flash [2/7]
flash 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core [3/7]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
jpackage-fedora [4/7]
jpackage-fedora 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
jpackage-generic [5/7]
jpackage-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [6/7]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [7/7]
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2
kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 148 kB 00:02
livna : ################################################## 454/454
Added 9 new packages, deleted 4 old in
0.71 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 5.7 kB 00:00
jpackage-f: ################################################## 25/25
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.11 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 366 kB 00:06
jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.20 seconds
primary.xml.gz
100% |=========================| 1.4 MB 00:23
extras : ################################################## 4749/4749
Added 202 new packages, deleted 111 old in 8.51 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 372 kB 00:06
updates : ################################################## 1005/1005
Added 15 new packages, deleted 71 old in 3.21 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for flash-plugin to pack into transaction set.
flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i38 100% |=========================| 6.0 kB 00:00
---> Package flash-plugin.i386 0:7.0.63-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
flash-plugin i386 7.0.63-1 flash 998 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 998 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): flash-plugin-7.0.6 100% |=========================| 998 kB 00:16
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8df56d05
Public key for flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i386.rpm is not installed
Retrieving GPG key from
http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
Importing GPG key 0x8DF56D05 "Fedora Linux (RPMS) <security@xxxxxxxxx>"
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: flash-plugin ######################### [1/1]
Installed: flash-plugin.i386
0:7.0.63-1
Complete!
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/
[root@localhost ~]# ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
[root@localhost ~]#
But this did not help :(
I know, this is Linux world, but I did not want to change back to Windows when I need Flash Playing.
