Flash repository (Re: Fedora Weekly News Issue 96)

Justin Gibson cueadar at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 14:24:53 UTC 2007


Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 12:09:13 pm Kelson wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Chung wrote:
>>     
>>> === Flash Player Security Update ===
>>>
>>> http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-12.html
>>>       
>> Actually, the mplug.org repository is no longer being updated.  Adobe is
>> providing their own yum repository now.
>>
>>  From the mplug.org website:
>>     
>>> This site used to host RPM and yum/apt repositories of Adobe Flash
>>> Player. Adobe has since taken over the job of RPM packaging and providing
>>> a yum repository.  Get the adobe-release package from Adobe to install
>>> their yum config and GPG key.
>>>
>>> Existing users of this yum repository must migrate to Adobe's repository.
>>> This site will shut down in the near future.
>>>       
>> So the advice is still valid -- use yum so you'll get updated
>> automatically -- but the download site has changed.
>>     
>
> is their repo actually setup yet?  i just tried, using their instructions and 
> get the 404 error for the repodata folder.
>
>   
I was able to update to the latest version of flash using their 
repository, though I didn't set it up from Adobe.  The latest update 
from the old mplug repository installs the Adobe repository.

-Justin




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