Thanks Chris; On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:56 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:43 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie > > at understanding what I might be doing wrong. > > > > I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3. Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe > > Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed. Firefox 'about:plugin' > > shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed. After download and installation > > I re-booted just to sure and no joy. > > > > What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look? Is there an arch > > mis-match? > > > > Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash? > > Indeed there are substitutes and alternatives, but IHMO / experience, > none of them are as good as Flash 9. > > The way I got this to work reliably on 64-bit F9 was to read and follow > the instructions on Section 10.5.1 of the F9 Release Notes. You can even > copy / paste the specific commands to complete the task if you like. > > For the sake of convenience, the F9 US English Release Notes are found > at: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/ > > Hope that helps! > Worked like a charm. Don't know why I didn't think of going to the release notes. I guess I just assumed Flash should automagically download and install. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
