On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:13:13 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Still working to get a good Fedora 21 install. Things are going well,
> except for Flash. I did a "yum -y install flash-plugin" but it doesn't
> seem to work (Firefox says I don't have Flash installed).
>
> localhost /temp # rpm -qa | grep flash
> flash-plugin-11.2.202.425-release.i386
>
> localhost /temp # ver
> Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
> Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
>
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 27
> 19:09:10 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I understand you ask the list for help because you're stuck, but why have
you stopped with your examinination of the problem when you've found out
that i386 is not what you want? If you've used Yum to install the plugin,
what repository configuration do you use for that? At Adobe's download
site for Flash for Linux, you can fetch the adobe-release-x86_64 package.
This is what you should get:
$ rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-plugin-11.2.202.425-release.x86_64
$ rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
$ rpmls adobe-release-x86_64
-rw-r--r-- /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
-rw-r--r-- /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
[adobe-linux-x86_64]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Hi Michael,
I "stopped" because I was not sure about how to proceed. I have never
used yum to remove a package before, and haven't even thought about the
repo stuff since I passed the RHCSA test back in 2009. Yes, I need to
stay on top of things like that and not just take it for granted.
Anyway, you were of course correct. I cleaned it up and now Flash is
working like a charm. I still don't know why or how the wrong file got
in the repo but maybe I'll look at that some other time.
Thanks for your help!
Jim Lewis