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
localhost /bin # file flash-player-properties flash-player-properties: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
Looks like it installed the 32-bit version. I'm thinking this is not a bug with Fedora, but maybe somewhere else. Or maybe I did another boneheaded thing.
I could probably fix this by using yum to remove the wrong one (does that really work?) and manually installing the correct one. Any ideas on this?
Jim Lewis
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
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
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