Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

[Rolf Turner <r.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
[Looking for Flash Player] 

Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.

Googling didn't turn this up?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash

Well, not as such.  Googling turns up (as always) several million things and that
one was not, uh, prominent.  After looking through the first half dozen or so hits,
I gave up.

That being said, thanks for pointing out that site to me.

***That*** being said, it still doesn't work.  I followed the instructions to the letter.

(1)

sudo yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm -y

This gave:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm                    | 4.2 kB     00:00     
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
/var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
Error: Nothing to do

Which is pretty much as I expected, given that I had installed the damned thing already.

(2)

sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linuxThi

This produced no response at all --- no error message, but neither was there any
indication of success.

(3)

sudo yum install flash-plugin -y

This produced a bunch of boiler-plate and finally:

Package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

So it would *appear* that everything was already in place as it should be.  But then:

(4)

Type the following text in the Firefox address bar:

about:plugins

When I did that I got:

No installed plugins found

I must be missing some key element in my set-up, but I have no idea what.
Can anyone enlighten me?  Grateful for any advice.

    cheers,

    Rolf Turner

P. S.  It was suggested that I try Google Chrome.  I did that, and under Google Chrome,
flash does indeed work and I can play the videos from the links that I was sent.

Nevertheless I would rather stick with using Firefox (the devil I know) and I would like
to understand just *why* flash is refusing to work under Firefox.  As I said, I would
appreciate enlightenment!

    R. T.

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