Re: application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]

[William Mattison]

Good morning,

I'm now thinking that for the long term, I'm probably better off waiting 
for chromium to become available in Fedora.  A concern is that wikipedia 
implies that code for flash-like functionality is not included in 
chromium.  So for the short term, I'm back to flash.

I am almost certain that 2-3 years ago, I installed flash from the adobe 
web site.  But it never worked.  A short while ago, I tried "dnf info 
flash" to see if I have it, and if so, what version.  I must be 
mis-understanding the dnf man page.  I got this:

bash.2[~]: dnf info flash
Fedora 23 - x86_64                              3.5 MB/s |  43 MB 
00:12
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free                 511 kB/s | 457 kB 
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree - Updates    207 kB/s |  54 kB 
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Free - Updates       350 kB/s | 160 kB 
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 23 - Nonfree              336 kB/s | 156 kB 
00:00
Fedora 23 - x86_64 - Updates                    7.6 MB/s |  24 MB 
00:03
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:07 ago on Wed Jul 27 09:31:01 2016.
Error: No matching Packages to list
bash.3[~]:

First, how do I determine whether or not I already have flash, and if 
so, which version?

Second, If I don't already have flash, what's the best way to get the 
right flash?  And then what do I need to do so Firefox launches it when, 
for example, I want to see a flash video in the yahoo finance web site? 
(and then there's those National Weather Service RADAR loops!)

Third, what did "dnf info flash" actually do?  Do I now have a bunch of 
files that I should delete?  If yes, where are they?

Thank-you for your help.
Bill.

(p.s.  This is one of those rare cases where I wish I could change the 
title or topic of this thread!)

application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]

[Jon Ingason]

Den 2016-07-27 kl. 18:07, skrev William:
> Good morning,
>
> I'm now thinking that for the long term, I'm probably better off waiting
> for chromium to become available in Fedora.  A concern is that wikipedia
> implies that code for flash-like functionality is not included in
> chromium.  So for the short term, I'm back to flash.

Look here:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-on-fedora-linux-wi...
> Thank-you for your help.
> Bill.
>
> (p.s.  This is one of those rare cases where I wish I could change the
> title or topic of this thread!)

application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/27/2016 09:07 AM, William wrote:
> Third, what did "dnf info flash" actually do?  Do I now have a bunch of
> files that I should delete?  If yes, where are they?

It just updated the metadata for the repos.  No need to delete it 
because it will just download it again next time dnf runs.  The command 
you ran would show you info on a package named "flash" which doesn't 
exist.  The actual package name is "flash-plugin", but as you found out, 
it's not in any of the usual repositories.  A better command would have 
been "dnf search flash".  That will look in package names and 
descriptions for "flash".  Assuming you are the same person that posted 
that you have flash working now, if you run that now, you should find 
the package you installed.

application to listen to on-line broadcasts? [SOLVED]

[William Mattison]

Thank-you for the explanation.  Yes, I'm the same person.  I tried what you suggested.  You're right.  It works.  Thank-you, Samuel.

Bill.