Flash player installation support?
Stanton Finley
stanfinley at comcast.net
Tue May 2 01:59:43 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 21:50 -0400, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> When trying to install Flash Player following instuctions at
> http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html, I
> run into a problem:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at dhcppc0 ~]# yum -y install flash-plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> dries [1/5]
> dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> core [2/5]
> http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> updates [3/5]
> updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> freshrpms [4/5]
> freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras [5/5]
> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 608 kB 00:10
> dries : ################################################## 2584/2584
> Added 2584 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.98 seconds
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 249 kB 00:04
> updates : ################################################## 805/805
> Added 413 new packages, deleted 0 old in 3.47 seconds
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 55 kB 00:03
> freshrpms : ################################################## 171/171
> Added 171 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.98 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: flash-plugin
> Nothing to do
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Any suggestions?
Another reason you may be getting the "nothing to do message" would be
that you do not have the macromedia repository configured as suggested
so yum can find a match for flash-plugin.
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Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/
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