On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 11:03 -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
This machine currently has F8 and I believe it was an upgrade from 7. Previous Flash (v9) was done before there was a yum repo, I believe.
If there are two versions installed and old version is removed from the plugin files, then the new one will be "seen" and used. I just tested this out on my F9 machine.
I agree, the yum repo would be a better bet since yum will help you by replacing instead of just adding.
~~R
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